Carter began an operation to isolate and further liberation of Raqqa
Carter began an operation to isolate and further liberation of Raqqa WASHINGTON, 6 Nov. /Offset. TASS Dmitry Kirsanov/. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced the beginning of military operations aimed at first isolating, and then at the liberation of Raqqa. The corresponding statement on behalf of the head of the Pentagon circulated on Sunday by the press service of the Ministry. “I welcome today’s announcement of SDS (“Forces of democratic Syria” — the armed forces, the backbone of whom are Kurds — approx. TASS) that started the operation to liberate Raqqa from the barbaric clutches of ISIS (formerly the banned terrorist group “Islamic state”, ISIS),” said Carter. Raqqa in recent years was the so-called capital of the extremists proclaimed a “Caliphate” in the occupied territories of Iraq and Syria. According to the head of the U.S. Department of defense, “efforts to isolate and ultimately to liberate Raqqa, marked the next step