Last Islamic State village in Syria falls, caliphate crumbles | World News, The Indian Express

Last Islamic State village in Syria falls, caliphate crumbles | World News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |Updated: March 24, 2019 6:48:01 am

Last Islamic State village in Syria falls, caliphate crumbles

In the last weeks, the militants’ families fled for their lives, their black-clad wives streaming into the desert by the tens of thousands. Some of them defiantly chanted Islamic State slogans and lobbed fistfuls of dirt at reporters.

After a gruelling campaign, the last speck of land was finally wrested from the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)

Written by Rukmini Callimachi

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A four-year military operation to flush the Islamic State from its territory in Iraq and Syria ended Saturday as the last village held by the terrorist group was retaken, erasing a militant theocracy that once spanned two countries.