Why Aren't Coalition Forces Planning Raqqa Assault?

Which city is more important for the Islamic State, Syria's Raqqa, the capital of the terror group's self-styled caliphate, or Iraq's Mosul, the much bigger city where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced more than two years ago the creation of his caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria? With maybe days to go before Iraqi and Kurdish forces, backed by the United States and other Western allies, launch an assault on Mosul, which will likely take weeks if not months to succeed, Western...

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