Syria force pounds holdout IS village

Kurdish-led forces backed by US warplanes rained artillery fire and air strikes Sunday on besieged and outgunned jihadists making a desperate last stand in a Syrian village.Islamic State group fighters holed up in Baghouz, the last sliver of the once-sprawling "caliphate" that their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed in 2014, responded with small arms fire as the Syrian Democratic Forces advanced.AFP reporters near the front line saw explosions lighting up the sky over the eastern Syrian far