ISIS - Hundreds queue for hours as they wait for food in 'caliphate's' capital

Famished and queuing despondently as far as the eye can see, these images will have the Islamic State's slick propaganda unit spitting feathers.

In scenes more familiar in the most impoverished refugee camps, scores of downtrodden Syrians wait in line for hours for food in the terror group's self-declared capital Raqqa.

It's a far cry from the all-conquering image of prosperity its jihadi PR machine would like the world to believe.

The pictures were posted on Twitter by a member of the anti-ISIS campaign group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently who risk their lives every day by documenting atrocities from inside the city.

Impoverished: Dozens of Syrians queue for food in the Islamic State's self-declared capital of Raqqa

Downtrodden: In scenes more familiar in the most impoverished refugee camps, the pictures are a far cry from the all-conquering image of prosperity that terror group's slick PR machine would like the world see

Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi one of the group's founders, wrote the accompanying message: 'Lines waiting for some food. Yes this is the #ISIS State. Hunger, poverty and homelessness.'

For those lucky enough to have a home, he paints a bleak picture of life spent in the dark and cold for hours on end.

'The city suffers from a shortage of electricity where the power goes off for 21 hours in the day,' he wrote in another tweet.

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