A picture taken on March 23, 2019 shows an AK47 rifle and explosives in the Islamic State groups last bastion in Syrian village of Baghuz. — AFP
Baghuz (Syria), March 24
Islamic State group jihadists emerged from tunnels to surrender to US-backed forces in eastern Syria on Sunday, a Kurdish spokesman said, a day after their “caliphate” was declared defeated.
“They are IS fighters who came out of tunnels and surrendered today,” Jiaker Amed said, without specifying how many.
An AFP reporter saw dozens of people—mostly men—file out of the battered jihadist encampment in the remote village of Baghouz to board pickup trucks. — AFP
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