Women, children face legal limbos and statelessness following collapse of Islamic State ‘caliphate’
Children in the Ain al-Issa camp in December 2017. Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP.
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Striking from the desert: Arms expert on how the Islamic State, in retreat, fuels its war effort
The Islamic State is now scattered across the deserts of Syria and Iraq. Driven back on all fronts,...
What’s next for post-Islamic State Syria? A month-long reporting series from Syria Direct
Raqqa residents line up for bread in January. Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP.
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Raqqa city on lockdown as US-backed forces clash with local Arab faction
AMMAN: The American-backed Syrian Democratic Forces clashed with a formerly aligned Arab rebel fact...
Leading Raqqa official dies amidst string of assassinations targeting members of northern Syria’s Kurdish-led government
AMMAN: A member of the Raqqa Civil Council died this week under unclear circumstances, following a ...
Months after coalition-backed victory in Raqqa, bodies still being pulled from the rubble
More than five months after United States-backed Syrian forces captured Raqqa from the Islamic Stat...
Syrian-Iraqi borderlands key to ‘post-caliphate’ Islamic State, says analyst Hassan Hassan
An expanse of valleys and sparsely populated open desert lies between Syria and Iraq. There, small ...
‘Temporary defeats’: Syria analyst Hassan Hassan on the future of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq
The Islamic State (IS) lost nearly all of its territory in Syria and Iraq over the past year.
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Joshua Landis: ‘The war is coming to an end, and the US should let it end’
The Syrian government controls most of the country’s major cities. Yet rebuilding Homs, Alepp...
The network: A virtual hunt for suspected Islamic State members in Syria
AMMAN: Aghid al-Khodr wakes up early, before the sun rises. At his home in an undisclosed location ...
Raqqa returnees await water, utilities as civil council announces eastern neighborhoods ‘safe’ from landmines
AMMAN: Water and electricity services are mostly out of service in the first three Raqqa neighborho...
