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Up against 2,500 isis fighters. the coalition only a few hundred the diehard foreigners as far as we understand and at this point seem to be three kilometers from the city center. where the tough et fighting will be in the built up urban scroll. do they have go meant momentum? >> nick's saying there, you know, raqqa is no mosul. yet we see just how tightly isis will hold on to an aenclave lik this. what does it mean it appears they are on the verge of losing both of their de facto capitals? they have already sort of planned for this, or as best they can by moving some of their leadership, the ...

Group, who predominantly run the government and the military now. that's always been at the heart. that hasn't gone away. finding shelter many fear and that will continue with inspiring these bomb attacks we've seen. car bombs. suicide bombers, against soft civilian targets around iraq. the bloodshed hasn't stopped. just seen them lose territory quickly. the fight for raqqa, i have to stress, moving quickly but could still take months. we simply don't know how willing they are to resist. they've been encircled a few weeks. >> good point. this never seems to take a shorter time than expected. i...

>> reporter: we don't know the scope of the progress elsewhere around the city, but the fact, according to this coalition statement, they seemed to manage to get past the fences of the city easily. according to the coalition. blowing through substantial holes in the about six-mile perimeter wall around the old city, therefore enabling them to bypass the boobytraps isis put in place that could save them a lot of time and potentially marks a significant moment of progress. they seem to be moving quickly around raqqa. a lot of coalition ground and air support speeding them on and face potentially...

[ gunfire ] this here is the scene in raqqa, syria. a stronghold for the terror group. coalition troops are pushing into the center of the city. they just breached the city's a rafiqa wall and in iraq this. a similar scene, u.s. forces pushing out the last of the isis fighters. these twin de facto capitals raqqa and mosul initially declared cal aphates. and correspondent for the daily beat kimberly kosher and nick paton walsh with us. a tweet that syrian democratic forces late tonight entered the old city in central raqqa. key milestone in campaign to leberate the city. how significant is this...