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Hundreds of Daesh Terrorists Surrender In Syria’s Baghouz - Report

Hundreds of Daesh Terrorists Surrender In Syria’s Baghouz - Report
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By Staff, Agencies

US-backed Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria reportedly captured 400 Daesh [the Arabic acronym for terrorist ‘ISIS/ISIL’ group] terrorists who were trying to escape the terror outfit’s last enclave in eastern Syria.

A senior commander for the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces [SDF] also said on Wednesday that hundreds more Daesh militants surrendered from the last shred of territory they control in the Syrian village of Baghouz in Deir Ez-Zour province.

"There are a large number of fighters who are inside and do not want to surrender," said the SDF commander.

Those surrendering were among more than 2,000 people who left Baghouz on Wednesday in the latest evacuation, transported by trucks to a patch of desert where they are questioned, searched and given food and water.

Scenes of surrender, humiliation, and anger highlighted the desperation of the armed group as its last major bastion in Syria teeters on the edge of collapse.

The evacuations came as the US-backed force slowed its latest push on Baghouz, east of the Euphrates River, to allow people to leave the enclave.

Capturing Baghouz would cap four years of international efforts to roll back the terrorist group.

Since February 20, more than 10,000 people have left the enclave, producing scenes of women, shrouded in black, and children climbing off trucks in the desert to be screened and searched.

Meanwhile, aid agencies in the area are struggling to cope with the influx, according to NGOs, including Save the Children.

The International Rescue Committee aid group said 4,000 people arrived on Wednesday. Of the 90 people who have died reaching the camp since December, two-thirds were babies or infants, it said.

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