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Jihadi brides have tried to attack refugee women in their camp in northern Syria for "defying the caliphate", according to reports.

Guards have been forced to fire into the air to break up fights and on one occasion used a taser to pacify a foreign female jihadist detainee, another Syrian woman at the camp said.

One woman at al-Hol camp is quoted as saying: "They yell at us that we are infidels for showing our faces. They tried to hit us."

The Baghouz enclave is ISIS' last shred of populated territory after years of attacks have rolled back its 'caliphate' in Syria and Iraq.

However the impending defeat leaves US-allies Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF )not knowing what to do with growing numbers of people, many of them Islamic State followers, who have survived, many of whom are foreign nationals and have not given up the ISIS doctrine.

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Most have been sent to al-Hol camp, which is already overcrowded with uprooted Syrians and Iraqis.

Tensions at al-Hol reflect friction that has simmered for years between jihadists who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State, 'al-Muhajirin', and locals who were members or lived under its rule.

A30-year-old woman from Turkestan who gave her name as Dilnor said: "There were problems with some people."

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Her family have moved to Syria to escape oppression at home.

A month ago the SDF launched what it called a "final battle" to take the cluster of houses and farmland, and people leaving the enclave have described harrowing conditions of peril and hardship.

The SDF said a week ago that it believed all civilians had come out and renewed its assault, leading to a new surge of displacement, including obdurate disciples of Islamic State, some of its captives and hundreds of surrendering fighters.

A Yazidi woman who emerged on Thursday spoke of years of enslavement and abuse by the jihadists.

Two Iraqi boys who came out with her, pretending to be her brothers, said many fighters remained dug into tunnels in Baghouz.

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However, the head of the SDF media centre, Mustafa Bali, said no more people had emerged on Friday.

"We are waiting for tomorrow morning or perhaps until the afternoon, we'll give another space, for the possibility that civilians are present and the chance to get them out," he said.

After that, "if no civilian or terrorist comes out, we will launch our military operation anew."

The capture of Baghouz will mark the end of Islamic State's territorial rule over populated areas of Iraq and Syria, and the culmination of a U.S.-backed military campaign waged by the SDF for four years.

After suddenly seizing swathes of land straddling the Iraqi-Syrian border in 2014 and declaring it their caliphate, Islamic State was beaten back by numerous local and foreign forces in both countries, suffering major defeats in 2017.

SDF forces were holding about 4,000 suspected Islamic State fighters from Iraq and Syria and more than 1,000 foreign fighters, the official said.