Raqqa, Syria - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Raqqa, Syria Index / Locations Transcripts Brett McGurk ...with in Syria to ultimately take down Raqqa in these areas that ISIS was reall... ...battles since World War II. Battle of Raqqa , the same. And we were able to do tha... ...the caliphate, including the Battle of Raqqa . It's basically what we had drawn u... ...office, we were talking about how to do Raqqa . And there was a question—to take th... ...was a question—to take the city of Raqqa from ISIS, we had to more directly ar... ...than we had been doing. Because to take Raqqa , which was a major city, we had t... ...Given that the threats coming out of Raqqa were so acute—I mentioned the lapto... ...on this knew, we had to take down Raqqa , and that this was the only way to d... Show more... Ash Carter ...Bakr al-] Baghdadi and take Mosul and Raqqa —which we certainly could have done... ...big red arrows; one at Mosul, one at Raqqa . That kind of said it all. And I tol... Ben Rhodes ...war for some time in eastern Syria, in Raqqa . Obviously they were on our rada... John Kerry ...left, but there was enough still around Raqqa [Syria] and parts of Syria, et cetera... Related Topics go to the Chicago Chicago go to the Wartime Presidency Wartime Presidency go to the Healthcare Healthcare go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Immigration Immigration