Kurdish-led forces overrun last ISIS-held village in Syria: monitor
Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village held by ISIS in Syria on Wednesday, confining its once vast cross-border “caliphate†to two small hamlets, a war monitor said.
It is the culmination of a broad offensive launched by the Syrian Democratic Forces last September with US-led coalition support in which they have reduced the extremists’ last enclave on the north bank of the Euphrates valley near the Iraqi border to a tiny rump.
The capture of the village of Baghouz leaves the few remaining diehard ISIS fighters holed up in scattered homesteads among the irrigated fields and orchards on the north bank of the Euphrates Valley.
Read more at: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2019/01/24/Kurdish-led-forces-overrun-last-ISIS-held-village-in-Syria-monitor.html
There was a report that the ISIS kingpin Baghdadi was caught; but that now, is being said as not to have happened. Something to watch just in case.
