400 jihadists captured in Baghouz
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Kurdish-led forces in eastern Syria captured around 400 Islamic State group jihadists as they attempted to slip out of their besieged enclave of Baghouz, a senior officer said.
The Syrian Democratic Forces intercepted a large group trying to escape from the village, the last tiny patch of territory under IS control, the officer said.
鈥淔our hundred IS fighters tried to flee Baghouz鈥 on Tuesday night, the SDF official said on condition of anonymity.
Their breakout was organized by a network that aimed to spirit them to remote regions, he said without specifying exactly where. They were on foot and included Syrians as well as fighters from several other nationalities, the officer added.
Tens of thousands of people, mostly jihadist fighters and their relatives, have left IS鈥檚 last bastions in and around Baghouz in recent weeks.
Among the 3,500 people who poured out of Baghouz on Tuesday following intense bombardment by the SDF and its international allies, 500 were suspected fighters turning themselves in, the SDF said.
Baghouz is the last speck of IS鈥檚 once-sprawling caliphate, a small farming village nestled in a bend of the Euphrates River by the Iraqi border.
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