Hundreds flee from war zone in Baghouz
NEARBAGHOUZ: The ferocious batists on Saturday, aided by the tle for the Islamic State’s last baswarplanes and artillery of a tion in eastern Syria entered its Us-led coalition. fifth day on Wednesday, as SDF spokesman Mustefa Bali exhausted families left the ever said on Tuesday that 600 civilians shrinking scrap of land where had fled the combat zone overholdout jihadists have been night and the Syrian Observatory boxed in by Kurdish-led forces. for Human Rights, a Britain
Hundreds fled day and night based war monitor, said another from Baghouz, near the enclave 350 made it out that day. where diehard IS fighters are Half a dozen among the new making their last stand, as arrivals were adult men. The rest plumes of grey smoke billowed were women, panting after their into the sky over the flat, desolate long trudge out of Baghouz, and town. The group declared a crossyoung children with dirty hair. border “caliphate” in Syria and About half were Ukrainian or Iraq in 2014, but various military Russian women and their chilcampaigns have chipped its terridren, while most of the others tory down to less than four square were Syrian. A 34-year-old kilometres on the Iraqi border. woman from Crimea tore pieces
After a pause of more than a of bread to give her three chilweek to allow out civilians, the dren. She identified herself as Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Umm Khaled and said she came declared a final push to retake the to Syria five years ago after pocket of land from the extrem- divorcing her husband.