The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) evacuated 930 people, including 60 men, from the last ISIS stronghold in the middle Euphrates River Valley on March 1, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Aso Network, a local news outlet, released a video of the evacuation process. Most of the people who fled the terrorist group stronghold were women and children who are either injured or sick.
“There is medicine, no operation rooms, there is nothing, we were forced to leave … If there were enough medicine these people wouldn’t have left,” an Iraqi woman told Aso Network.
After the evacuation process, the SOHR reported that US-led coalition warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on gatherings of ISIS fighters near the group’s last stronghold north of the town of al-Baghuz al-Fawqani.
Despite these aerial operations, the SDF did not resume its ground attack, which was paused few weeks ago. The Kurdish group claim that it had stopped its attack in order to evacuate thousands of civilians who are still stuck in ISIS last stronghold.