Kurdish-led forces pronounced the death of the Islamic State group’s nearly five-year-old “caliphate” Saturday after flushing IS gunmen out from their very last bastion in eastern Syria.
Fighters of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces raisedtheir yellow flag in Baghouz, the remote riverside village where ISIS men of avariety of nationalities made a desperate, dramatic last stand.
“Syrian Democratic Forces declare total elimination of so-called caliphate and 100 per cent territorial defeat of ISIS,” spokesman Mustefa Bali said in a statement, using another acronym for IS.