Kurdish-led forces pronounced the death of the Islamic State group’s nearly five-year-old “caliphate” on Saturday after flushing out jihadists from their very last bastion in eastern Syria. Fighters of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces raised their yellow flag in Baghouz, the remote riverside village where jihadists of a variety of nationalities made a desperate and dramatic last stand.
Kurdish-led forces pronounced the death of the Islamic State group’s nearly five-year-old “caliphate” on Saturday after flushing out jihadists from their very last bastion in eastern Syria. Fighters of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces raised their yellow flag in Baghouz, the remote riverside village where jihadists of a variety of nationalities made a desperate and dramatic last stand.