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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/world/middleeast/isis-baghuz.html
A Desperate Exodus from ISIS' Final Village
(New York Times) Rukmini Callimachi - In the last two weeks, thousands of people have been streaming out of the village of Baghuz, the last speck of land under Islamic State control in Iraq and Syria. The militants are now trapped in an area about the size of Central Park. As the noose has tightened, even those who joined the caliphate in its earliest days are trying to save themselves. Large numbers of the escapees are foreigners, especially Iraqis, as well as Germans, French, Britons, Swedes and Russians.