Hardened, mostly foreign Daesh fighters take final stand at last Syrian enclave

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Reuters

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Sun, 2019-03-10 09:44

BAGHOUZ, Syria: Armed with assault rifles and with faces wrapped in scarves, the Daesh fighters visible at the boundary of their last enclave in eastern Syria are among the hardened militants who appear ready to fight to the death.
Thousands of people — many of them the wives of Daesh fighters and their children — have been streaming out of the besieged enclave at Baghouz for weeks, forcing the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to delay an assault on the last vestige of the militants’ territorial rule.

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