Operation to wipe out remaining vestige of jihadists' territorial rule at besieged village near the Iraqi border held up amid efforts to evacuate thousands of civilians
Civilians evacuated from the Islamic State's embattled holdout of Baghouz wait at a screening area held by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, on February 27 2019. Picture: DELL SOULEIMAN/AFP
“We will announce the complete victory over Daesh [IS] in a week,” SDF commander-in-chief Mazloum Kobani said in a video released by the SDF on Thursday, speaking during a meeting with a group of SDF fighters freed from IS captivity. It was not immediately clear when the video was filmed.
Thousands of members of the minority Yazidi sect from Iraq were forced into sexual slavery when IS surged across the border in 2014 and seized swathes of territory. More than 3,000 other Yazidis were killed in an onslaught the UN later described as genocidal, which prompted the first US airstrikes against IS. Thousands more fled on foot and many remain displaced more than four years later.
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