In the cities and towns across the desert plains of northeast Syria, the ultra-hard-line Al-Qaeda offshoot ISIS has insinuated itself into nearly every aspect of daily life.
The group famous for its beheadings, crucifixions and mass executions provides electricity and water, pays salaries, controls traffic, and runs nearly everything from bakeries and banks to schools, courts and mosques.
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But ISIS has embedded itself so thoroughly into the fabric of life in places like Raqqa that it will be all but impossible for U.S. aircraft – let alone Iraqi, Syrian and Kurdish troops – to uproot them through force alone.
Last year, Raqqa became the first city to fall to the rebels and jihadists fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad. They called it the “Bride of the Revolution.”
The group famous for its beheadings, crucifixions and mass executions provides electricity and water, pays salaries, controls traffic, and runs nearly everything from bakeries and banks to schools, courts and mosques.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Mi...269628-in-raqqa-isis-builds-a-government.ashx
But ISIS has embedded itself so thoroughly into the fabric of life in places like Raqqa that it will be all but impossible for U.S. aircraft – let alone Iraqi, Syrian and Kurdish troops – to uproot them through force alone.
Last year, Raqqa became the first city to fall to the rebels and jihadists fighting to overthrow President Bashar Assad. They called it the “Bride of the Revolution.”