BAGHOUZ (Syria), Feb 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said U.S.-backed fighters seized the last Daesh enclave in eastern Syria on Saturday after the jihadists who were still there surrendered.
The UK-based war monitoring group said the last few hundred militants, many of them foreigners, had surrendered in the past two days to the Syrian Democratic Forces. It said some militants may still be hiding in underground tunnels.
With the help of U.S. air strikes, the Kurdish-led SDF has battled to crush Daesh in the shrinking Baghouz enclave east of the Euphrates river near the Iraqi border. — NNN-AGENCIES
