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The territorial caliphate ends at Baghouz

March 2019Key eventDeir ez-Zor province

MilitaryTerritorial changeISIS remnants and the central desert

The SDF takes the last ISIS-held village on the Euphrates; the territorial caliphate ends, leaving an insurgency in the desert, and tens of thousands of fighters and family members in SDF-run prisons and the al-Hol and Roj camps.

Why it mattersTerritorial defeat converted ISIS into the remnant threat the module tracks — and created the detention-and-camps file that has been a security and humanitarian burden on the northeast, and now the state, ever since.

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Anti-ISISThe cities, and the end at Baghouz

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ISIS remnants

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Syrian Democratic Forces · atlasAttacking forcehigh confidence

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