US-backed militia forces were combing through the ruins of Raqqa yesterday, after capturing the Syrian city from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and dashing its dream of a caliphate.

Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces were deployed across the rubble-strewn streets to look for unexploded ordnance and booby traps left behind by ISIS militants.

There was no public sign that ISIS fighters, many of them foreigners, holed up in the city had either surrendered en masse or been killed in the last 24 hours of fighting in the city.

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