SDF forces continued fighting to clear pockets of ISIS fighters under last stronghold of Bagouz on Friday night, despite White House's earlier declaration that the ISIS-held territory had been completely eliminated.
Three U.S. military officials said fighting is still ongoing in Syria, and that there could still be a couple of hundred fighters there in hiding.
NBC News recently observed SDF fighters armed with AK-47s talking to ISIS members as women, children and elderly men began hiking along the base of a cliff overlooking Baghouz.Delil souleiman / AFP - Getty Images file A report issued by the United Nations' population fund, the UNFPA, said Thursday"it is estimated that around 7,000 people are still inside" Baghouz, without elaborating.
Left behind were dozens of strollers, wheelchairs and pieces of luggage — items that the evacuees couldn’t carry up the side of the cliff.
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