US threatens Iran after fall of ISIS “capital” of Raqqa By James Cogan 23 October 2017 US-backed forces announced on October 16 they had fully captured Raqqa, the Syrian city on the Euphrates River that the fundamentalist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) had styled the “capital” of its “caliphate.” The Syrian Democratic … Continue reading US threatens Iran after fall of ISIS “capital” of Raqqa