Families flee bombardment and hunger in last Syria IS pocket

2019-01-26 0

As US-backed forces advanced, 22-year-old Dima Qatran buried one of her twin babies, then picked up the other and fled the Islamic State group's crumbling pocket in eastern Syria. Clutching her remaining 11-month-old daughter, she joined hundreds escaping the last shreds of the extremist group's "caliphate" near the Iraqi border.