Anti-IS fighters near Raqa delight in American weaponry

Chorche was like a kid in a candy store in front of crates packed with US weapons to help an Arab-Kurdish alliance take the Islamic State group's Syria bastion Raqa. "We're going to rain these sophisticated weapons down on Daesh (IS)," said the member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters. The SDF entered Raqa on Tuesday after seven months of fighting to cut off the jihadist stronghold in northern Syria.