DAMASCUS – Agence France-Presse Damascus has said that it still considers Raqqa an occupied city, less than two weeks after a U.S.-backed alliance drove the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) out of its onetime Syrian capital. Troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al- Assad kept out of the offensive led by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that pushed ISIL out of the city on October 17. The SDF is dominated by the Syrian-Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which Turkey sees as

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