The caliphate falls
The United Nations stated that 100 people, mostly children, died on the way to Al-Hawl.
Civilians fleeing from ISIL's last remaining territory in Syria after two days of heavy fighting wait at a gathering point where before being taken to internment camp, near Baghuz, in north eastern Syria, on March 5, 2019.
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.
Candid picture taken during a press visit to a screening point outside Baghouz, organised by the SDF.