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People pour from Islamic State Syria enclave

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Hundreds more people fled Islamic State's last enclave in Syria on Wednesday, part of an exodus of many thousands leaving the group's tiny pocket of land while US-backed forces hold off from an offensive.

 

Baghouz, a tiny cluster of hamlets and farmland on the banks of the Euphrates at the Iraqi border, is all that remains to Islamic State of the caliphate straddling the two countries which its leader proclaimed in 2014.

 

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