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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 363

Baghouz

Smoke rises from a strike on Baghouz, Syria, on the Islamic State group's last piece of territory on March 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
May 18, 2022, 12:22 am
Pentagon clears officer over 2019 Syria strike that killed civilians
Defense Department rejects NYT report that military covered up deaths of civilians in attack on Islamic State stronghold, says troops thought only fighters were in the area
By AFP
In this file photo taken on March 3, 2019, smoke and fire billow after shelling on the Islamic State group's last holdout of Baghouz, in the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor province. (Photo by Delil souleiman / AFP)
November 15, 2021, 10:49 am
US defends Syria airstrike investigated by NY Times as ‘legitimate’
CENTCOM says 2019 strike carried out in Baghouz despite presence of civilians — previously flagged as a ‘possible war crime’ — was ‘self-defense’ and ‘proportional’
By AFP
This image made from video posted on a militant website on April 29, 2019, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet. (Al-Furqan media via AP)
April 29, 2019, 8:55 pm
IS chief Baghdadi emerges on video for first time in five years
Terror leader admits battle for group’s last Syria stronghold over, says Sri Lanka bombings were revenge on West; notes Netanyahu winning Israeli vote as apparent proof clip is new
By ToI Staff and Agencies
File - Heavy smoke rises above the Islamic State (IS) group's last remaining position in the village of Baghouz during battles with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in the countryside of the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor on March 18, 2019. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
April 2, 2019, 4:20 pm
US-backed fighters clash with IS fighters in Syria
Coalition forces pound jihadists with airstrikes more than a week after ‘caliphate’ was declared defeated
By Agencies
A picture taken on March 23, 2019, shows a fighter of the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) flashing the V for victory sign in the fallen Islamic State group's last bastion in the eastern Syrian village of Baghuz after defeating the jihadist group. (GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP)
March 24, 2019, 12:25 pm
Syria Kurds urge world to take back, reintegrate children of foreign IS jihadis
After announcing defeat of terror group, top Kurdish official says thousands of fighters are ‘a danger for us and for the international community’
By AFP
A picture taken on March 23, 2019 shows the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces' (SDF) flag atop a building in the Islamic State group's last bastion in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz after defeating the jihadist group (Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)
March 23, 2019, 8:52 am
Islamic State is defeated, ‘caliphate’ is gone, US-backed Syrian forces declare
Syrian Democratic Forces says it has liberated final area held by terrorist group in village of Baghouz, but sporadic gunfire continues and some IS fighters still hiding out
By AP
US President Donald Trump shows a map which he said indicates the end of ISIS, as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida on March 22, 2019. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP)
March 22, 2019, 8:25 pm
Islamic State ‘100 percent’ defeated in Syria: Trump
President shows reporters map indicating Jihadists no longer control any territory after days of bombing and other attacks by Kurdish-led forces
By AFP
US President Donald Trump holds up a map detailing territory losses by the Islamic State in Syria as he speaks following a tour of the Lima Army Tank Plant at Joint Systems Manufacturing in Lima, Ohio, March 20, 2019. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
March 21, 2019, 3:05 am
Defeat of final Islamic State bastion in Syria imminent, Trump says
Fighting in Baghouz appears to halt, signalling fall of city, but sleeper cells may continue to threaten resurgence of jihadist group
By Agencies
Civilians evacuated from the Islamic State group's embattled holdout of Baghouz wait at a screening area held by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, on March 5, 2019 (Bulent KILIC / AFP)
March 14, 2019, 10:44 pm
Islamic State fighters, families surrender after offensive in Syria
US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces report further success in battle to remove terror group’s threat in its last stronghold in Baghouz
By Agencies
US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters stand guard next to men waiting to be screened after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, near Baghouz, eastern Syria, Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. (AP/Felipe Dana)
February 23, 2019, 11:11 am
Told to leave, IS ‘caliphate’ holdouts in Syria stay devoted
Hundreds, if not thousands, remain holed up in Baghouz — the last redoubt of the self-proclaimed Islamic State that leaders once said would stretch to Rome
By Sarah El Deeb
Civilians fleeing the Islamic State's group embattled holdout of Baghouz walk in a field on February 13, 2019. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)
February 20, 2019, 12:38 pm
Dozens of civilians, fighters quit Syria jihadist holdout, say US-backed forces
Syrian Democratic Forces slows down offensive to evacuate civilians from last patch of Islamic State territory
By Gihad Darwish and Rouba El Husseini
Security footage of three British schoolgirls, left tor right, Kadiza Sultana, Shamima Begum, and Amira Abase, passing through security checks at Gatwick airport on their way to join Islamic State, 2015. (London Metropolitan Police)
February 14, 2019, 8:15 pm
UK teen runaway who joined Islamic State ‘wants to come home’
Shamima Begum, who watched two of her children die and is now pregnant with her third, expresses no regret at joining jihadist terror group, says she just wants a quiet life
By Alice Ritchie
Civilians fleeing the battered Islamic State-held holdout of Baghouz in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor walk past an armored vehicle and into a nearby area held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on February 12, 2019. Delil souleiman/AFP)
February 13, 2019, 9:59 am
Hundreds flee US-backed battle for last Islamic State holdout in Syria
Refugees from fighting straggle to coalition-held territory as some 600 die-hard jihadis hold out in small pocket
By Maya Gebeily
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