Around 3,000 Islamic State members have surrendered from the group’s last holdout in Syria, Kurdish-led forces said, as air raids and shelling resumed after a brief lull. A ragged tent encampment in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz is all that remains of a once-sprawling IS group’s “caliphate” declared in 2014 across large swathes of … Continue reading ‘3,000 surrender’ as Islamic State nears defeat in last Syria bastion Baghouz