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Hundreds flee US-backed Syria battle for last ISIS holdout
[Rudaw] NEAR BAGHOUZ, Syria - Exhausted families trudged out of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group's last bastion in eastern Syria Tuesday, as Kurdish-led forces boxed holdout jihadists into an ever-shrinking pocket.

Hundreds fled at night but hundreds more during the day as plumes of grey smoke billowed into the sky over Baghouz, where diehard ISIS fighters are making their last stand.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-02-13
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