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In Raqqa, Syria, Signs of Faltering Islamic State Rule
(Wall Street Journal) Maria Abi-Habib, Raja Abdulrahim and Nour Alakraa - Hundreds of Islamic State loyalists in recent days have fled the group's de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa, where a lack of water and electricity point to the extremists' crumbling control. Residents said Islamic State's feared religious police is gone, fewer fighters patrol the streets, and there are fewer military checkpoints. Many Islamic State fighters had already fled Raqqa in recent months to a remote outpost to the south in Syria's Deir Ezzour province.