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.
An illumination round lights up the battlefield as the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fire on Islamic State militant positions in Baghouz, Syria, Monday
An SDF warrior unloads rounds of his machine gun on IS positions within Baghouz on Monday night
Thousands of women and children have been saved by the SDF who have carted them north to safety at a refugee camp in Al-Hol
The minute-and-a half recording, released by IS supporters on social media and reported by the SITE Intelligence Group late on Monday calls 'brothers, in Europe and in the whole world' to 'rise against the Crusaders and ... take revenge for your religion.'
Thousands of women and children have been carted north to a holding camp at Al-Hol away from the brutal siege, in a humanitarian effort which has lasted for weeks.
Mustafa Bali, an SDF spokesman, confirmed air strikes had killed 38 IS fighters on Tuesday, with three of his men being lost in counter attacks.
The last bastion was pounded with air strikes and artillery throughout Sunday and Monday in a US-backed assault aimed at wiping out the last shred of its territorial rule that once spanned a third of Syria and Iraq.
Bali tweeted: 'Troops clashed with terrorists on more than one axis and the field command confirmed the death of 38 terrorists - 20 air raids were carried out, destroying a number of military vehicles, defensive fortifications, two ammunition stores and a command centre.
'The terrorists carried out two rocket attacks in two different axes: ten wounded and three martyrs.'
The SDF said earlier its fighters advanced slowly to avoid losses and were encountering sniper fire and landmines.
The defeat of Islamic State at Baghouz will mark a milestone in the campaign against the jihadist group, ending its control of populated territory in the area straddling Iraq and Syria where it suddenly expanded in 2014 and declared a caliphate.
However, the group still operates in remote territory elsewhere and has shown it will continue to mount a potent security threat, with a string of insurgent attacks in both countries.
The SDF has made 'modest advances' since resuming its assault on Sunday night, killing and wounding many jihadist fighters said Adnan Afrin, an SDF commander.
Tracer rounds light up the sky over Baghouz as the SDF attempt to wipe out the last remaining IS fighters
A tracer round whistles through smoke filling the air over Baghouz as the SDF rained down shells on the tunnels and caves of the IS militants
A line of women wait to be screened by SDF fighters after they fled from Baghouz last week
SDF fighters walk through a tent encampment that had been occupied by Islamic State group militants in Baghouz on Monday
He said the SDF was advancing slowly because it wanted to complete the campaign with minimal losses.
Islamic State fighters attempted four suicide attacks but the SDF captured an arms dump, said Mustafa Bali, head of the SDF media office. One SDF fighter was killed and four wounded.
By Sunday evening, no more people had come out to surrender, prompting the SDF to start its attack.
Pro-Syrian government forces hold the opposite bank of the Euphrates across from Baghouz and Iraqi militias are stationed at the border, cutting off any easy escape route for the jihadists.
Inside Baghouz, a squalid area of makeshift shelters, garbage and trenches filmed TV on Sunday showed the harsh conditions in the ruins of Islamic State's 'caliphate'.
Amid palm trees and scrubby patches of vegetation, rusting cars stood among the bivouacs made by stringing blankets from rope. Oil drums and plastic barrels lay scattered around.
The SDF has shipped most people fleeing the wreckage of Islamic State's rule over recent weeks to al-Hol in northeast Syria where some 65,000 people now live in a camp that the U.N. says was built to house 20,000.
The obdurate support voiced by many of them for Islamic State, particularly among foreigners, has posed a complex security, legal and moral challenge for both the SDF and their own governments.
An SDF soldier takes a smoke break in a tent encampment that had been occupied by Islamic State group militants
The last remaining IS believers have been living underground with tents draped over their squalid, disease-ridden tunnels
SDF soldiers aid men wounded by airstrikes, during an offensive on the last area held by Islamic State group extremists, are treated at a reception area for evacuees on Sunday
Wounded men are hauled into trucks and taken away from the battlefield after the SDF took them from Baghouz
Those issues were underscored on Friday with the death of the newborn son of Shamima Begum, a British woman who left to join Islamic State when she was a schoolgirl.
On Monday, the head of the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said there were about 3,000 children from 43 countries living in al-Hol, along with many more Syrian and Iraqi children, in 'extremely dire conditions'.
'Since the 1st of January 2019, every single day, a child has died fleeing the fight against ISIS,' UNICEF head Geert Cappelaere told a news conference in Beirut.
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