Under attack: Raqqa has been decimated by Russian and US-led airstrikes, including this attack which struck a residential neighbourhood east of the city centre, leaving the residents terrified
Daily Mail: Beheadings, crucifixions and bombs falling from the sky: Life inside the burned out 'ghost town' of ISIS capital Raqqa where 'prisoners' live amongst the rubble with no electricity or hot water
* Raqqa is the de facto capital of ISIS, taken over in 2013, where the people must live under group's draconian laws
* Women are banned from walking the street unaccompanied by a man and must adhere to strict Muslim dress code
* They live with no electricity or hot water and are prevented from working, so cannot afford luxuries like chocolate
* In the once relaxed city, offenders are held in cages, decapitated, have hands cut off, and lashed with whips public
* Before civil war, Raqqa was different place where children enjoyed pool parties and students went to coffee shops
Crucifixions, beheadings and gay men thrown from tall buildings to a baying mob below. Piles of rubble and burned out shells where families once lived. No electricity or running water. This is the daily hell of those forced to live under ISIS in Raqqa.
The first thing father of three Mohammed sees when he leaves his home is ISIS's religious police, Hisbah, patrolling the streets, looking for people to punish.
'I'm afraid to lose my children, I am afraid that my wife will be flogged for not wearing the right clothes,' said the former teacher, 37, who was too frightened to give his surname.
He added: 'Things have changed from bad to worse under ISIS - the cost of food, there is no fuel or firewood.
WNU Editor: The focus in this article is on Raqqa .... but Raqqa is one of many cities that are now being destroyed by this conflict.
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