Richard Spencer on the fall of Raqqa

It took an extraordinary military blitz to rout Isis from its de facto capital, Raqqa. The trauma and terror of those final days were witnessed first hand by Richard Spencer. Here he describes what it was like to enter the devastated Syrian city and pick over the remnants of the once mighty caliphate.

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