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The caliphate falls (Silver Award Paris Prix 2019)

Men, likely fighters, who have fled from ISIL's last remaining territory in Syria walk to where they will be interrogated by Coalition forces near Baghuz, in north eastern Syria, on March 6, 2019.<br />
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By the start of February 2019, the Syrian Defence Force (SDF), backed by the international coalition against ISIS, had fought ISIS into a final pocket between the Euphrates River and the Iraqi desert. The coalition had predicted the presence of some two thousand fighters and their families and a short fight to finish them off, but the fighting wouldn’t end for almost two months, in which tens of thousands of civilians, fighters and their families fled ISIS’s final enclave under terrible conditions. <br />
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An unposed picture taken during a press visit to a screening point outside Baghouz, organised by the SDF.

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