Posted on 10/17/17
| News Source: WSJ
U.S.-backed forces said they have captured Islamic State's de facto capital of Raqqa, Syria, wrenching away the group's last major urban stronghold in the Middle East.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by U.S. airstrikes and American special forces on the ground, said they had concluded their four-month battle for the city Islamic State used as a nerve center to plan and stage attacks on the West.