lity for attacks, infographics, and audio/video messages. These releases were most accessible through the messaging app Telegram. Since its loss of Raqqa, Syria, ISIS has not published a non-Arabic language magazine—once a key feature of the group's online media strategy. The last issue of ISIS's Rumi

o fighting militants. The Syrian Defence Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces, are advancing on ISIS's de facto capital, Raqqa. As they get closer to encircling the city, the SDF is also planning the next phase of the operation in other ISIS-controlled areas such as neighbo

ident Barack Obama's na=ional security adviser, Susan Rice, who had explained the Pentagon's plan=to retake the Islamic State's de facto capital of Raqqa with Syrian Kurdish f=rces whom the Pentagon considered the U.S.'s most effective military partners= Obama's national security team had decided to a