BBCNEWS Newsday October 17, 2017
Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london, and 2am in the syrian city of raqqa, which has effectively been recaptured from the so called Islamic State. Once an is stronghold, an alliance of kurdish and arab fighters have battled for more than four months to retake it. Two years ago, is controlled a large area across iraq and syria. But now they only hold a handful of towns on the border. Our middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville has the latest. At the heart of raqqa, theyre giddy with victory. The Syrian Democratic forces control the city that the so called Islamic State hailed as its c...