The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have announced that they have taken control of an ISIS encampment in Baghouz after weeks of operations and assaults on the last enclave. However, isolated gun battles are continuing in the area, seeing as ISIS’ last remaining redoubt and as such high concentrations of fighters.
The last holdouts of ISIS have been largely confined to Baghuoz since last month. The Kurdish-led SDF launched a new offensive on March 10 after slowing its push to allow civilians to flee and to let thousands of ISIS fighters and their families surrender.
Baghouz which the last ISIS holdout and whose capture will mark the end of the group’s territory, which once spanned hundreds of miles across Iraq and Syria is slowly but steadily falling under the control of SDF seeing as hundreds of injured ISIS fighters have also been captured.
Over 60,000 people have poured out of this area in the past two months. Most of them have been ISIS fighters, supporters, and their children, but there have also been ISIS victims majorly Yazidi children and women who were taken by the group from Iraq and used as slaves.
