Defiant female sympathisers eye IS resurgence in Syria A woman refuses to acknowledge the end of the so called 'caliphate' declared by the Islamic State group in 2014, which is now nearly defeated. She is among the 2000 people plucked on Friday from the final patch of IS territory in the village of Baghouz near the Iraqi border and who are now waiting to be searched by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the desert in Deir Ezzor. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES