| Tango01 | 21 Oct 2017 10:30 p.m. PST |
"ISIS — and particularly its expanding caliphate — used to be a major news story in this country. Defeating the terror army that largely stretched across Syria and Iraq was a major campaign topic in 2016. So one would think, after the ISIS de facto capital of Raqqa was liberated from the terror group by U.S-backed Syrian and Kurdish forces on Tuesday, that the story would dominate news coverage…."
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 StoneMtnMinis  | 21 Oct 2017 10:51 p.m. PST |
Thanks for posting this Tango. It has been ignored by the msm in the US. |
| BrianW | 21 Oct 2017 11:19 p.m. PST |
I did see this in the news. CNN, maybe? It has been broadcast, but not as much as I would have thought. |
| Lion in the Stars | 21 Oct 2017 11:50 p.m. PST |
Yeah, I'm surprised at how little attention the liberation of DAESH's capital city has been getting. |
| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 22 Oct 2017 8:07 a.m. PST |
Some direct reporting on this side of the Atlantic, but more comment about the risks posed by people returning from ISIS territory. |
 SBminisguy | 22 Oct 2017 10:55 a.m. PST |
No surprise -- Trump is president, and that means the media don't want to give him credit for *anything.* |
| Tango01 | 22 Oct 2017 3:12 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!.
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| brass1 | 22 Oct 2017 6:13 p.m. PST |
Funny, I haven't had any trouble finding news about Raqqa. Of course, I listen to NPR. LT |
| Cyrus the Great | 23 Oct 2017 11:07 a.m. PST |
Funny, I didn't have any trouble finding out about Raqqa being liberated and I watch what's termed "main stream media". |
| rmaker | 23 Oct 2017 8:05 p.m. PST |
It was on the front page of my newspaper. |
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