ISIS controls only 10% of Raqqa. Raqqa is the former capital of ISIL's so-called caliphate. ISIL's final defeat at Raqqa would be a milestone in efforts to roll back the "caliphate" the group declared in 2014 in Syria and Iraq, where earlier this year it was driven from the major northern city of Mosul.
Iran on Saturday brought online a sponge iron mill with a capacity of 800,000 tonnes a year, with officials saying the facility is the country’s first to use indigenized reduction technology.
A senior Iranian official has underlined the Islamic Republic’s determination to deliver a befitting response to any hostile measure against the country.