What's left of Daesh in Syria

The Islamic State militant group, whose self-proclaimed "caliphate" disintegrated last year, still controls pockets of territory in Syria.

The organisation's fighters even took control of a small neighbourhood in southern Damascus this week, in a surprise nighttime operation that took advantage of the vacuum left by the evacuation of another armed group.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, ISIS controls less than five percent of Syria.

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