Syria force pounds holdout IS village

Kurdish-led forces backed by US warplanes are raining artillery fire and air strikes Sunday on besieged and outgunned jihadists making a desperate last stand in a remote Syrian village.

Islamic State group fighters holed up in Baghouz, the last dreg of the once-sprawling “caliphate” that their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed in 2014, are responding with small arms fire as the Syrian Democratic Forces advances.

AFP reporters near the front line have seen fireworks-like explosions lighting up the sky over the eastern Syrian farming village after an airstrike hit an underground ammunition depot.

The jihadists’ last redoubt was said to be about half a square kilometer in size a week ago and it shrank even further with the last few hours of fighting.

— AFP

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