US-backed forces this week launched an attack on Raqqa in Syria, close to the de facto capital of the Islamic State, as the Iraqi government launched its own attack on Fallujah. Siona Jenkins asks the FT's Middle East correspondent Erika Solomon if the two assaults on Isis-held territory were related.

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