The last 300 fighters of the Islamic State do not want to surrender – 20/02/2019

More than 300 ISIS operatives in a small area of ​​eastern Syria refuse to surrender to the forces backed by the United States and trying to negotiate a way out.

The extremists are staying in the village of Baghouz, where are hidden among hundreds of civilians to those who prevent leaving the site. These tactics will almost certainly delay the declaration the end of the self-proclaimed caliphate of ISISthat the Syrian democratic forces were waiting to do last week.

According to a person close to the negotiations, the extremists they ask a broker to the Idlib province, in the north-west of the country, still under rebel control.

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based militant group that monitors the civil war in Syria, also noted that Daesh's request to be evacuated to neighboring Iraq was rejected. The organization released 10 FDS fighters on Sunday, but it was not clear if they were going to get something back, the Observatory said.

The tiny point in the far east desert of Syria, near the border with Iraq, is what remains of the caliphate that once covered one third of the two countries and included several cities and big cities.

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The SDS and the US-led coalition have been fighting the Islamic State in the region since September. In recent years, they and other forces have expelled the Islamic State group from almost all the areas they once controlled, battles that left thousands of dead and ruined cities and neighborhoods.

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At least 62 people have died in recent weeks, mainly because of exhaustion and malnutrition, after escaping from the territory held by the Islamic State, said the International Rescue Committee. Spokesman Paul Donohoe said that Two-thirds were children under one year old.

This Wednesday, a convoy of 17 trucks with hundreds of civilians on board He left Baghouz through the humanitarian corridor to take residents of the last territory controlled by the radical militia along the Euphrates River.

Onboard vehicles could be seen women, children and men, some with square handkerchiefs or keffiyehs. A man was wearing a crutch and the women were dressed in niqabs, black conservative clothes covering their faces.

It is not clear if the insurgents were also traveling in the vehicles.

Zana Amedi, SDS commander, said that most militants left in the enclave are seriously injured or sick.

AP Agency.

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