From the Liveblog of
Sunday, March 3, 2019
Syria force pounds holdout IS village
Kurdish-led forces backed by US warplanes are raining artillery fire and air strikes Sunday on besieged and outgunned jihadists making a desperate last stand in a remote Syrian village.
Islamic State group fighters holed up in Baghouz, the last dreg of the once-sprawling “caliphate” that their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed in 2014, are responding with small arms fire as the Syrian Democratic Forces advances.
AFP reporters near the front line have seen fireworks-like explosions lighting up the sky over the eastern Syrian farming village after an airstrike hit an underground ammunition depot.
The jihadists’ last redoubt was said to be about half a square kilometer in size a week ago and it shrank even further with the last few hours of fighting.
— AFP
The Times of Israel Community.