Raqqa

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Oct 13,2019

Russian pretexts at Assad's disposal

SDF arrest humanitarian workers in Raqqa, raising questions and concerns

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LATEST FROM Raqqa

‘Unprecedented’ drug use in Raqqa as city recovers from IS rule, say residents

August 14

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...

Striking from the desert: Arms expert on how the Islamic State, in retreat, fuels its war effort

August 12

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...

In a city buried by rubble, Raqqa residents work to restore ‘life’ to ancient heritage sites

August 08

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...

Raqqa sees gradual return of civil society amid widespread destruction, political uncertainty

August 06

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...

Women, children face legal limbos and statelessness following collapse of Islamic State ‘caliphate’

August 01

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...

What’s next for post-Islamic State Syria? A month-long reporting series from Syria Direct

July 29

Raqqa residents line up for bread in January. Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP. The Islamic State once occupied a vast swathe of territory across Iraq and Syria that was—a...

Raqqa city on lockdown as US-backed forces clash with local Arab faction

June 25

AMMAN: The American-backed Syrian Democratic Forces clashed with a formerly aligned Arab rebel faction in Raqqa city for a second consecutive day on Monday in security operations ...

Leading Raqqa official dies amidst string of assassinations targeting members of northern Syria’s Kurdish-led government

May 02

AMMAN: A member of the Raqqa Civil Council died this week under unclear circumstances, following a string of assaults and assassinations targeting officials in northern Syria&rsqu...

Months after coalition-backed victory in Raqqa, bodies still being pulled from the rubble

April 04

More than five months after United States-backed Syrian forces captured Raqqa from the Islamic State, the smell of decaying bodies still rises from piles of rubble that make up mo...

Syrian-Iraqi borderlands key to ‘post-caliphate’ Islamic State, says analyst Hassan Hassan

February 15

An expanse of valleys and sparsely populated open desert lies between Syria and Iraq. There, small cities and towns hug the banks of the Euphrates River, which flows through Syria...

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