Hundreds of Islamic State militants have surrendered as they left the group's last enclave in eastern Syria.
More than 6,500 people, most of them civilians, have been evacuated from the terror group's holdout in Baghouz in the last 24 hours.
ISIS faces defeat in Baghouz in eastern Syria, but it still holds remote pockets of land further west and has launched guerrilla attacks in other areas where it has lost control.
Civilians evacuated from ISIS's last holdout of Baghouz wait at a Syrian Democratic Forces screening area yesterday. Hundreds of militants have surrendered as they left the enclave
More than 6,500 people, most of them civilians, have been evacuated from the terror group's holdout in Baghouz (pictured yesterday) in the last 24 hours
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they had slowed their assault on Baghouz because more civilians were trapped in the enclave than previously thought.
As ISIS lost further ground it was reported that a notorious French militant, Jean-Michel Clain, had been killed in a mortar strike.
Clain, whose brother was linked to the 2015 Paris terror attacks which killed 130 people, was killed in a drone strike two weeks ago, ABC News reported.
The SDF's Mostafa Bali said hundreds of jihadists had surrendered. that among some 6,500 people fleeing since Monday after the SDF opened a corridor for them to flee.
Two young girls walk with their belongings near Baghouz in Deir Al Zor province yesterday
Women and children who were evacuated out of the last territory held by ISIS militants wait to be screened outside Baghouz on Tuesday
'For the second consecutive day our forces had succeeded in evacuating more than 3,500 between women, children and men. There were more than 500 men mostly from foreign nationalities,' he said.
The militant fighters hail from a number of countries including Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
The SDF, led by the leftist Kurdish-YPG militia, has also attracted fighters from radical secular Marxist volunteers from across Europe who are ideologically opposed to Islamist groups.
Baghouz, a collection of hamlets and farmland near the border with Iraq, is the last patch of populated territory that IS still holds in the area straddling the two countries where it declared a caliphate in 2014.
Boys stand in line to receive aid near Baghouz in Syria yesterday
A vehicle belonging to the US-led coalition drives down a road during shelling on the Islamic State group's last holdout of Baghouz on Sunday
In Baghouz on Tuesday mostly women and children who had been evacuated on Monday waited to be sent to a camp to the north under SDF control, al-Hol.
The United Nations said last week that at least 84 people, two-thirds of them young children, have died since December on their way to al-Hol camp.
The camp now holds at least 45,000 people, according to Jens Laerke, spokesman of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), who said many people had arrived exhausted, hungry and sick.
While the capture of Baghouz would mark a milestone in the fight against IS, the group is expected to remain a security threat as an insurgent force with sleeper cells and some pockets of remote territory.
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Main photo article Hundreds of Islamic State militants have surrendered as they left the group’s last enclave in eastern Syria.
More than 6,500 people, most of them civilians, have been evacuated from the terror group’s holdout in Baghouz in the last 24 hours.
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