An official with the Syrian Democratic Forces said victory against the jihadists could come ‘very soon,' after his group seized the ISIS camp at Baghouz
Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces ride a military vehicle in the Syrian village of Baghouz on March 18, 2019.U.S.-backed Syrian forces said they were close to capturing Islamic State’s last territorial possession in eastern Syria on Monday after seizing the jihadists’ camp at Baghouz, though clashes continued with some remaining militants.
The camp was the biggest remaining area held by Islamic State in Baghouz, itself the last populated area the jihadist group held from the third of Syria and Iraq it suddenly seized in 2014. Conditions inside were dire, said people who left, with inhabitants facing constant danger from bombardment and with little food, forced to eat grass. Hundreds of wounded militants were captured when the SDF overran the camp, Bali said.
Both the SDF and the U.S.-led coalition that backs it have said the remaining Islamic State militants at Baghouz are among its most hardened foreign operatives.
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