Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village held by the Daesh group in Syria confining its once vast cross-border “caliphate” that spread across Iraq and Syria to two small hamlets. The fall of Baghouz follows the SDF’s capture of the enclave’s sole town of Hajjin and the villages of Al-Shaafa and Sousa in recent weeks.
The capture of the village of Baghouz leaves the few remaining diehard Daesh fighters holed up in scattered homesteads among the irrigated fields and orchards on the north bank of the Euphrates Valley.
Search and mop-up operations are underway for remaining fighters seeing as reports indicate that almost 1,800 extremists have surrendered since December.
