BAGHOUZ: Picture showing explosions following shelling by the US-backed forces on the Islamic State group's embattled holdout of Baghouz on Monday — AFP DAMASCUS, Mar 11 (Agencies): The Kurdish-led forces in Syria have said 38 ISIL fighters have been killed in a US-backed offensive against the group's final enclave after the area saw heavy bombardments overnight.
Three Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters were also killed in the battle, Mustafa Bali, the head of the SDF media office, said in a post on Twitter.
The members of the SDF moved towards a tent encampment in the village of Baghouz and at one point encircled a group of ISIL fighters, killing a number of them in an hour-long battle, Bali said.
Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid said the fighting was the "heaviest yet" in the battle to retake Baghouz.
Meanwhile, an audio recording purportedly from the Islamic State group is calling on supporters across the world to stage attacks in defense of die-hard militants besieged by US-backed forces in their last foothold in a village in eastern Syria.
The brief, minute-and-a half recording, released by IS supporters on social media and reported by the SITE Intelligence Group late on Monday says men, women and children in the village of Baghouz are being subjected to a "holocaust."
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