‘Unprecedented’ drug use in Raqqa as city recovers from IS rule, say residents
A sign warns against drug use in Raqqa on August 4. Photo courtesy of the Raqqa Municipality.
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‘A treasure house of Syria’s past’: Archaeologists, NGOs reckon with scale of cultural looting in post-IS Raqqa
Mosaics in the Raqqa Museum after Islamic State battle in August. Photo by Abdullah Isma...
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,...
In a city buried by rubble, Raqqa residents work to restore ‘life’ to ancient heritage sites
Raqqa's Abbasid-era Baghdad Gate in July. Photo courtesy of Oxygen Shabab.
AMMAN: The deadly...
Raqqa sees gradual return of civil society amid widespread destruction, political uncertainty
A Raqqa resident sifts through debris in Raqqa city in March. Photo courtesy of a local aid worker
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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.
When the US-led i...
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.
The Islamic State...
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 ...
