04-03-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com

Some IS jihadists surrender in eastern Syria enclave but more remain

The jihadist group faces defeat in Baghouz on the banks of the Euphrates, but it still holds remote pockets of land further west and has launched guerrilla attacks in other areas where it has lost control.Baghouz, a collection of hamlets and farmland near the border with Iraq, is the last patch of populated territory Islamic State (IS) still holds in the area straddling the two countries where it declared a caliphate in 2014.The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said earlier on Monday they had slow
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