LATEST FROM Raqqa
October 01
AMMAN—Although the reasons that led Russia to intervene militarily in Syria, on September 30, 2015, are “plentiful, complex and interrelated,” according to Taha Abdul Wahed, a Syr...
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August 19
AMMAN—Last week, a group of humanitarian workers was arrested in the northern city of Raqqa, by the Kurdish-led military alliance, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). While the arrest...
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March 27
Islamic State sleeper cells are assassinating local officials and laying roadside bombs across eastern Syria, where the militant group is exploiting a fragile security situation ...
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February 21
For around five years, Judi Arash lived under siege in a bombed-out, encircled rebel-held area of northern Homs that, at one point, was restricted to just three square kilometers....
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December 20
US forces near Manbij in 2017. Delil Souleiman/AFP.
AMMAN: US-backed factions and displaced Syrians in eastern Syria expressed “surprise” on Thursday over a shock dec...
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November 13
A sheikh from the a-Sakhba tribe reads out a statement a few days after al-Huwaidi’s assassination. Photo courtesy of the Raqqa Civil Council.
AMMAN: Basheer Faisal al...
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October 17
Passengers board Raqqa's ferry service before crossing the Euphrates in October. Photo courtesy of Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered.
AMMAN: Every night after sundown, a q...
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September 24
Farmers survey damage to the Raqqa cotton crop in July. Photo courtesy of Raqqa Civil Council.
AMMAN: The white, fluffy buds that usually signal the beginning of the annual ...
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August 28
Rebel fighters and their families arrive in rural northern Aleppo in April. Nazeer al-Khatib/AFP.
After seven years of war, one image in particular has become a potent symb...
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August 23
A Syrian man rides a motorbike in Raqqa in February. Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP.
Public executions, brutal extrajudicial murders and other atrocities were the norm in are...
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