Hundreds of Islamic State militants have surrendered as they left the group's last enclave in eastern Syria amid more than 6500 people, mostly civilians, who were evacuated in the last 24 hours.
Women who were evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants carry their children outside Baghouz, Syria, on Tuesday, local time.Credit:AP
IS faces defeat in Baghouz on the banks of the Euphrates, but it still holds remote pockets of land further west and has launched guerrilla attacks in other areas where it has lost control.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Monday, local time, that they had slowed their assault on Baghouz because more civilians, previously thought to have completely evacuated, were trapped in the enclave, but they promised to capture it soon.
A member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) watches over people who were evacuated out of the last territory held by IS militants on Tuesday, local time. Credit:AP
Mostafa Bali, head of the SDF media office, said that among some 6500 people fleeing since Monday after the SDF opened a corridor for them to flee, hundreds of jihadists had surrendered.
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