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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.

Last Islamic State village in Syria falls, caliphate crumbles

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
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.

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