On edge of IS redoubt, dying 'caliphate' on full display The black and white flag of the Islamic State group flutters above a bullet-scared building, amid burnt cars and heaps of tents people come and go. Pushed flush along a bend in the Euphrates River, this scrap of a desert hamlet in eastern Syria is the only territory the jihadists have left, a team of AFP journalists observed from a position held by the Syrian Democratic Forces and recently retrieved from the IS group. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITESREFILE WITH AFP TEXT STORY