coalition backing the syrian and arab fighters behind me here. moving into the old city area of raqqa itself, pushing through the substantial wall around it using air strikes and being able to bypass the mines and defensive positions that isis have put in place to try to slow this acc down. it seems to be moving far slow indeed. we ve been american military vehicles moving at a reasonable frequency. it s the last option center isis really control because they re pretty much days away from losing the largest city they ever had which is mosul in iraq. literally a matter of hundreds of meters for iraqi forces to clear. they smell victory but the people they face are suicide bombers with civilians as human shields. a difficult task after that when they try to build iraq, fractured as a society between the sunni ethnic group and the