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2019-03-09 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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SDF gives ISIS one 'final' chance to surrender before Baghouz offensive - report
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[Rudaw] Following a week-long lull to allow civilians and Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) bandidos turbans to surrender to Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in al-Baghouz, the fighters backed by the US-led international coalition will restart their operation on Saturday.
"We are waiting for tomorrow morning or perhaps until the afternoon, we’ll give another space, for the possibility that civilians are present and the chance to get them out," head of the SDF media office Mustafa Bali told Rooters on Friday.
While there have been Arclight airstrike s and sporadic festivities with ISIS on several axes in the Baghouz area over the past week, the SDF have delayed the completion of their operation to allow surrenders and to besiege the ISIS bastion.
"If no civilian or terrorist comes out, we will launch our military operation anew," Bali added.
Baghouz is the last significant ISIS-held town east of the Euphrates and is near the border with Iraq.
ISIS "tunnels and trenches" have also slowed SDF progress, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
It reported on Friday that within the past 24 hours 1,050 people have exited the ISIS holdout, including 90 fighters.
The coalition's Operation Roundup began on May 1, 2018, with the aim to clear ISIS from the Middle Euphrates River Valley.
"Al-Hol camp has significantly surpassed its capacity, with the current population exceeding 62,000 individuals. More than 90 per cent of the new arrivals are women and children. Children represent the vast majority, 23 per cent are under the age of 12 and 12 per cent are under the age of 5," a U.N. report said on Friday.
Around a tenth of the nearly 58,000 people who have fled the last IS bastion since December were jihadists, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor.
 IS teen's baby son dies in Syria
[PULSE.NG] The baby son of Shamima Begum, a British-born teenager who left London to join the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, has died in Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said Friday.
SDF front man Mustefa Bali confirmed the death to AFP but declined to specify how or when it happened. He had previously denied the baby had died in a Twitter post that has since been deleted.
Begum, 19, gave birth last month in a refugee camp in northeast Syria.
She travelled from east London to Syria in 2015 and said she had previously given birth to two other children. They are said to have also died, apparently from illness and malnutrition.
Britannia stripped Begum of her citizenship last month despite her wishes to return to the country, although the government hinted her newborn son could be treated differently.
Her case has highlighted a dilemma facing many European countries, divided over whether to allow jihadists and IS sympathisers home to face prosecution or bar them from entry.
A mass exodus from the jihadists' last redoubt in eastern Syria has sparked a humanitarian emergency, as the SDF leads an offensive to smash the last remnants of the IS "caliphate".
The International Rescue Committee on Friday said that 12,000 women and kiddies had arrived at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp since Wednesday.
Since December at least 100 people have died en route to the camp or shortly after arriving, mostly children under five, the IRC said.
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