Aug. 23, 2018
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...
Aug. 20, 2018
The First Responders Team excavates a Raqqa grave in August. Photo courtesy of Raqqa Civil Council’s Reconstruction Committee.
AMMAN: A grim smell hangs in the ai...
Aug. 16, 2018
Mosaics in the Raqqa Museum after Islamic State battle in August. Photo by Abdullah Ismail.
Few insurgent groups in recent memory have made wanton destruction of cultu...
Aug. 16, 2018
Raqqa residents sell produce near a collapsed building on May 17. Photo by AFP.
AMMAN: In the final days of the battle for Raqqa, what remained of the city’s Islamic State ...
Aug. 15, 2018
Raqqa teachers attend a July workshop. Photo courtesy of Raqqa Civil Council Education Committee.
AMMAN: More than 100,000 students are expected to return to schools across north...
Aug. 14, 2018
A sign warns against drug use in Raqqa on August 4. Photo courtesy of the Raqqa Municipality.
AMMAN: Walking through the tattered streets of his city, Raqqa resident Muhamma...
Aug. 12, 2018
The Islamic State is now scattered across the deserts of Syria and Iraq. Driven back on all fronts, almost all of the territories the hardline group controlled at its height in 20...
Aug. 8, 2018
Raqqa's Abbasid-era Baghdad Gate in July. Photo courtesy of Oxygen Shabab.
AMMAN: The deadly expulsion of the Islamic State from Syria’s Raqqa last October was, argua...
Aug. 6, 2018
A Raqqa resident sifts through debris in Raqqa city in March. Photo courtesy of a local aid worker
AMMAN: In the months before the Islamic State shrouded Raqqa in black—and...
Aug. 1, 2018
Children in the Ain al-Issa camp in December 2017. Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP.
When the US-led international coalition launched its campaign against the Islamic State (IS) in 2...
