The U.S.-backed forces fighting to oust the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) from its eastern Syrian bastion of Raqqa have seized half of the city less than two months into a multi-pronged offensive, a Syrian monitor said Thursday. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a U.K.-based opposition-leaning monitoring group with an extensive network of contacts on the ground … Continue reading U.S.-Backed Forces Seize Half of Raqqa, The Capital Of ISIS’s ‘Caliphate’