Defiant Islamic State (IS) group fighters hunkered down in a riverside camp in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz on Friday as US-backed forces prepared to expel them from the last scrap of their vanishing “caliphate”. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces pushed into Baghouz, a tiny hamlet near the Iraqi border where IS fighters are making a desperate last stand. … Continue reading IS group clings to last scrap of ‘caliphate’ in Syria