A fighter with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) aims a recoiless gun toward a part of Baghouz where remaining Islamic State (IS) group fighters are holding out in their last position, in the countryside of the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor on March 18, 2019. A shroud of black smoke covered the Islamic State group's last Syria redoubt today as US-backed forces battled holdout jihadists after a night of shelling and heavy air strikes The Kurdish-led SDF have been closing in on IS fighters holed up in a small sliver of territory in the village of Baghouz in eastern Syria since January. (Photo by Giuseppe Cacace/AFP Photo)
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