Kurdish activists said the surrendered IS militants were taken to prison in the city of Tabqa in the countryside of Raqqa, while other activists, mainly pro-Syrian government, said the U.S.-led coalition and the SDF allowed them to be transferred to the countryside of Deir al-Zour province in eastern Syria where the Syrian army is advancing in the battle against IS in that oil-rich area near Iraq.

For the foreign IS fighters, the U.S.-backed coalition didn't accept their departure, as Paris opposed to their transfer as one of them was the mastermind behind the terror attack in Paris.

The foreigners are the ones who were standing till the end before the SDF retook all of their positions, including the city's local stadium, which was the last IS position in Raqqa.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday that as many as 3,250 people, including 1,130 civilians, have been killed during the four-month-long battles in Raqqa.

It added that children and women were among the killed civilians, as the rest of the death toll is for IS militants and SDF fighters.

IS declared Raqqa as its de facto capital in 2017, after announcing their self-styled caliphate in Syria.

Finally, the end of IS has become around the corner, as the Syrian army forces and its allies are clawing back areas fallen to the terror-designated group in Deir al-Zour.

The Syrian army succeeded over the past two days to completely besiege IS in areas they control in the city of Deir al-Zour and started attacking those areas.

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