Daily Mail: 2,000 people - mainly ISIS militants - surrender to US-backed Syrian forces closing in on their last strip of territory after the terror group complained they were being subjected to a 'holocaust'
* An IS recording calls for revenge in Europe for the 'holocaust' they are suffering
* 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
* But the SDF say they have evacuated a further 2,000 capitulating jihadists today
Some 2,000 people - mainly ISIS militants - have surrendered to US-backed forces closing in around their last enclave after the terror group complained they were being subjected to a 'holocaust.'
A purported IS audio recording online called for revenge across the globe as the last desperate fighters declared they were the victims at Baghouz, in eastern Syria.
The Syrian Democratic Forces made painstaking efforts to permit the surrender of thousands before finding no more were forthcoming as they resumed bombardments on Sunday.
Today SDF spokesman Adnan Afrin said the latest massive group were being transferred to neutral ground for screening.
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More News On The Battle For The Last ISIS Stronghold In Syria
Final Battle Against IS Caliphate as 'Good as Over' -- VOA
Isis releases video of fighters in Baghuz as Kurdish forces advance -- The Guardian
IS releases defiant video from last scrap in east Syria -- AFP
Hundreds surrender as Islamic State nears defeat in last enclave -- Reuters
'Tomorrow we'll be in paradise': Islamic State followers speak from besieged enclave -- Reuters
Kurdish forces pound last remaining ISIS stronghold in Syria (VIDEOS) -- RT
Islamic State group calls on followers to avenge Syria siege -- AP
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