Fireballs and black smoke billow from final IS holdout in Syria

Syria: The rattle of guns, bomb blasts and black smoke — a deluge of fire is being unleashed on the Islamic State’s last Syrian stronghold by Kurdish-led and international forces.
“Watch out, it’s coming!” Kurdish commander Hagit Qamishlo shouts to AFP journalists, from the terrace of a house that overlooks the battlefield some 800 metres away.
A few minutes later, a low growl announces the arrival of a plane from the US-led coalition.
It hits one of the jihadist positions, the explosion sending a shockwave juddering through the landscape and reducing several houses to dust in the IS-held sliver of Baghouz village.
“Well played! That was a jihadist sniper position”, Qamishlo relays into his walkie talkie.
He then asks fellow Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) units on the ground if they have coordinates for other enemy positions to feed to the coalition.