Year after IS lost Raqa, holdout hospital awaits recovery Shattered ultra-sound machines and prosthetic limbs litter the hallways of Raqa's main hospital, still gutted a year after the Islamic State group made its infamous last stand in its Syrian heartland. The bullet-riddled complex looms large among the sea of destroyed buildings in the northern city, once the de facto Syrian capital of IS's ill-fated "caliphate".