The demise of the ‘caliphate’s capital’ (Abdulrahman al-Rashed, Al Arabiya)

Syria’s Raqqa is not new to war. The Mongols occupied and destroyed it, and settled there until they were expelled. It is finally about to be liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has carried out unimaginable atrocities against its people, as documented and publicized by its own fighters

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