Daily Mail/AFP: 3,000 ISIS members surrender as US-backed Syrian forces continue to assault the terror group's last holdout
* Syrian Democratic Forces have helped thousands of women and children to flee
* Shelling on Baghouz, eastern Syria, resumed Sunday as no one else tried to leave
* SDF say they have evacuated some 3,000 capitulating jihadists in recent days
Around 3,000 ISIS fanatics have surrendered from the group's last holdout in Syria as air raids and shelling resumed after a brief lull today.
A ragged tent encampment in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz is all that remains of a once-sprawling ISIS 'caliphate' declared in 2014 across large swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has been trying to crush holdout ISIS fighters for weeks but the mass outpouring of men, women and children from the riverside hamlet has bogged down its advance.
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