Torture rooms, booby traps and baby strollers: Adrienne Arsenault in the streets of ISIS's former capital - Action News
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Torture rooms, booby traps and baby strollers: Adrienne Arsenault in the streets of ISIS's former capital

CBC's Adrienne Arsenault and Jean-Franois Bisson travelled to the devastated Syrian city of Raqqa shortly after its liberation and found the remnants of ISIS from abandoned strollers to powerful narcotics to live explosives, all clues to the monstrous evil inflicted during the group's rule.

Traces of the Islamic State and the 'stench of the dead' remain in Raqqa

In the ruins of Raqqa, the evil is in the details

7 years ago
Duration 10:43
Within days of ISIS fleeing the Syrian city of Raqqa, Senior Correspondent Adrienne Arsenault and cameraman Jean-Franois Bisson travel to Syria to see what ISIS left behind

The Syrian city of Raqqawas once the de facto capitalof the ISIS's self-styled caliphate, but U.S.-backed Syrian forces celebrated last month as theydrove the extremists from the city.

CBC'sAdrienne Arsenault and Jean-Franois Bissontravelled to the devastated city shortly after its liberation and found the remnants of ISIS from abandoned strollers to powerful narcotics to live explosives, all clues to the monstrous evil inflicted there.

Click the video above to see the destruction and the emotional scars ISIS left in its wake.