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. Mostafa Bali, head of the SDF media office, said that among some 6,500 people fleeing since Monday after the SDF opened a corridor for them to flee, hundreds of militants had surrendered. It was not possible to independently verify the number and SDF officials also said it was difficult to estimate how many people were left. “For the second consecutive day, our forces had succeeded in evacuating more than 3,500 between women, children and men. The United Nations said last week that at least 84 people, two-thirds of them young children, have died since December on their way to al-Hol camp.

Source: The Express Tribune March 06, 2019 06:11 UTC