Transcript for Former ISIS stronghold Raqqa struggles to recover after years of war

We don't they need to tell you what the impacts of this war is being. Just look at it for yourself huge mounds of rubbish buildings that are being bombed down many of them just raised to the ground. And it's not just gone by the fighting. Is presently eviscerate to clients. Diesel people's lives they without homes there would have businesses. As a colleague was it looks like the apocalypse. Iraqi oil is the first city to be occupied by the militants devices and it was one of the last to be liberated. Oh well that means is that the people who live here. And Seymour suffered more than almost anybody else at the hands of the men of the black flag. And the sixties that's struggling to recover so lemon Beckham. You see slowly little pockets of life three emerging let go wild flower and a deserts. People are struggling to rebuild their lives to struggle is absolutely. The right words. It's not just OK some of the roads have now being cleared for their mounds of debris everywhere. We look at this. Many of these m.s are completely uninhabitable. Davis still living in tents outs in the Dez because they don't have a home to come back to. There are many surprising things about the city seven months since the war. I think the overriding thing here is that a State's affinia still lingers. Beautiful seven months after rice's had been defeated and driven out of the city although there are rumors that are still pockets around here. That people would be happy that they would feel liberated they would fill frayed there will be looking positively towards if you Jeff. There is a real lingering via a sense of doubts about what the future actually holds people last does. It's a governments of Syria the government's Syrian president Bashar Assad coming back east can tell you. With the exception of one person would be nip at three days now talking to dozens and dozens of people. With the exception of one man every single person said that they fit. The regime of Bashar Assad fumble than they did die says. And that's really telling. Did to get that it's not just a four years Iraq has been occupied this is seven years the brutal civil war in Syria. And we pulled last decades and decades of having to live with yes I've found mandl looked that's entails. So people say that security is and number one comes and I'm what happens in sends a government of the moment there is no real functioning government. Here there is a local council is billions goals by the American leg coalition but otherwise. There is a boy tea and the question is what fills up boy. So the other day we're outside des jewelry shop talking to a bunch of men. And again they've they've voices bed about being afraid. But day. They said repeatedly that 18 is it taking so long to rebuild and to re cup. Many view the last why so much Afro was put into the war and not just an equal amounts of effort being puts into the reconstruction. And also there's. There's certainly a bits and as if not an anger about how much. Explosive power how much military forces putting to defeating old woman described as a bunch of men with guns now clearly ours is was much more than that. And this city was terrorized by them. But nevertheless this was a campaign that was largely pulled from the bad. And you can see the impacts of that everywhere and that we haven't been down a single streets that hasn't been devastated. By the impact to the bombing here and we broom forces one man described as having said it was something like using is like a sledgehammer to kill and hands and of course ours is moves must more than acts rules are the other horrific stories about what high seas did here. Critic cafe the other take any a cup of coffee. And the men that just opened up its was almost without prompting when they saw the woo foreign journalists how many foreigners here in town. Telling us about the horrific stories of what they didn't jewel. In particular the women of racked up I think George joy in this war many of them were confined let prisoners to their own homes. We see now the women are out on the streets with that children. It looks like an everyday scene that this is something that haven't been able to do before Yates today lifting the stakes affair they went out what happens to them. And a horrific tales of physical mental and terrible terrible sexual abuse. The militant devices felt they could behave with women anyway they wanted. Didn't laps if the woman was married it's it was a month if she was single if they like the woman all they won't sit they would just take up. And that kind of trauma is gonna take years and years to recover in people's pools will never forgets what happened jail. The party is not season isn't over yet although Iraq has been liberated this was a capital of that calibrate this was the center that gravitate. That's has been taken back into the control of the US led coalition and local forces. But there are still pockets of my system we've also ahead tales of people being abducted or killed we had a bats an attack on a funeral Paula. Which was targeted because it was playing songs locals and that was one of the many things that I says condemned here which holds good stories about people. A man who had a TV sets in his house. The militants came in that and killed him in his own home. So the fight is still going all not necessarily here in the city but ounce in the desert there is still a pocket devices left fifth. And one thing we shouldn't forget is that there was a major deal done to liberate that city in the final days it was still hundreds and hundreds of vices by Tuesday. And an agreement was made between the local fight says. And dice this to allow the militants with the rule peacefully. But they left without power base and they left to fight another day. Which is why US forces together with their local allies as still conducting this vines. Mean I say ace. Has gone but it isn't the gulf soon and this is a sixteen. Probably will never completely recover. Summoning them. You see the reaction given the smiling that waving a mean. You don't feel any real tension if there is fear of course looking about what he jolts but that they'll let alone that oppressive feeling. Being afraid of going out what women say the right thing when you dress a right way. That is all go home. There's so much work to do here. United States government is putting money in your paying governments of putting money. Just isn't enough it's going to slow make. Just one final souls and that's the victims devices. The other day we came across rescue crew. Who are recovering bodies. And the man that used to be Obama and his job now is eventually like a medical examiner. And he severance to sift through every. Pail full of Deb gray says search for bones to search for the remains have children of women of men. And he says he's been doing this every single day practically since the war ended seven months ago is that we asked him how much longer do you think you'll have to do this job. And it's just bones was two years. So the undertaking here is massive the trauma is very true and unless they know what the future holds. In the city of raccoon people who live here we never truly be in case.

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