[VIDEO] Inside the fight to retake Raqqa from ISIS
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Three months into the battle to seize the Islamic State group’s de facto capital of Raqqa, in northern Syria, fighters from the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have taken control of 70 percent of the city, according to activists on the ground.
Slowed down by snipers, booby traps, and car bombs, the mixed Arab-Kurdish fighters of the SDF find themselves fighting an enemy that has returned to its insurgent roots, forcing them to struggle for every house and street in the city. The relentless international-coalition airstrikes destroy ISIS wherever the group’s fighters make a stand, but it’s often at the cost of devastating the city around them...
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