Kurdish-led forces battled jihadists defending their last village on Saturday as the operation to flush out the Islamic State group from eastern ...
NEAR BAGHOUZ: Kurdish-led forces battled militants defending their last village on Saturday as operations were relaunched to flush out the Islamic State group from eastern Syria after several days of humanitarian evacuations.
The scale of the exodus from the what remains of the"caliphate" has been epic, involving tens of thousands of desperate people who have overwhelmed the capacity of Kurdish-led forces to accommodate them. AFP reporters near the front line could see thick black smoke rising above the heart of the village, which SDF units approached through outlying farms.
Some of the evacuees, however, were suspected fighters either surrendering to the SDF or attempting to slip back into civilian life. Only a few dozen people were evacuated by the SDF on Friday in the smallest convoy in days, prompting the Kurdish-led force to close the humanitarian window and resume their offensive.
Its brutal legacy is still raw and the scope of the atrocities committed under its rule continues to emerge, even in areas where its fighters were defeated long ago.
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