In pictures: Thousands flee the battle for Baghouz

More than 6,500 civilians have fled Baghouz, the Islamic State (IS) group’s final enclave in eastern Syria, since Tuesday. Among them were some 200 IS fighters, according to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia currently facing down the militant group (AFP)

Women and children queue at a screening point in an area run by the US-backed SDF. Hundreds of women and children stumbled through eastern Syria's windswept desert carrying what little they could after fleeing IS's final speck of territory (AFP)

A girl walks as she holds a child near Baghouz, which lies in eastern Syria's Deir Ezzor province (AFP) 

Members of the SDF, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, carry a man suspected of being an IS fighter after leaving Baghouz (AFP) 

A man sits with his palm on his face after leaving Baghouz. Air strikes and ground assaults on IS' enclave have been near-constant in recent days, and those fleeing have said food supplies are running thin (AFP)

An SDF fighter holds a toddler during a security check of her and her mother (unseen) after they have left Baghouz. Women and children are kept in separate internment camps to men (AFP)

A man suspected of belonging to IS sits in the back of a truck as he waits to be searched by the SDF (AFP) 

Boys pray together near Baghouz. The children of IS members have spent years under the militant group's tutelage. Now that IS' territorial hold has collapsed, their futures are uncertain (Reuters) 

Men suspected of being IS fighters wait to be searched by members of the SDF. Many of those emerging from Baghouz are wounded or are suffering afflictions (AFP)

Women and children who fled Baghouz ride in the back of trucks in an area controlled by the SDF (AFP)

People who fled Baghouz are taken to internment camps around 100km from IS' final redoubt. It is unclear how long they will stay there (AFP)