Tunnels, civilians slow capture of Islamic State’s last Syria pocket

More than a thousand foreign jihadists could still be sheltering among civilians in Islamic State’s final stronghold in east Syria, a shred of land riddled with defensive tunnels, an official with the U.S.-backed force trying to defeat them said on Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia has surrounded the militants at the village of […]

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