Endgame for the Isis 'caliphate' looms in small Syrian town

Special forces said to be preparing to storm Baghuz to flush out last Islamic State diehards

They left Baghuz in a convoy of trucks, slowly snaking across the desert as thin trails of black smoke from mortar strikes drifted into the sky behind them.

The Islamic State fighters dangled their legs off the backs of vehicles normally used for transporting sheep. Brightly-coloured keffiyehs wrapped around their faces, they stared at Kurdish troops as they passed without saying a word.

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