Raqqa

The Autonomous Administration launches new reforms to placate tribal elements

Nov 29,2020

SDF continues to recruit child soldiers, despite pledges to stop the practice

Damascus struggles to secure wheat supply amidst coronavirus crisis

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Reconstructing the nation, one dome at a time

LATEST FROM Raqqa

Suspected IS sleeper cells step up assassinations, attacks in eastern Syria after SDF ‘victory’ in Baghouz

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 ...

Souriyeh / سوريّة: Women’s voices from Syria

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....

US allies in Syria left stunned by shock announcement of military withdrawal

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...

Raqqa’s Arab tribes navigate ‘uneasy calm’ under SDF rule

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...

One year after the expulsion of the Islamic State, civilians in Raqqa eke out an ‘existence among the rubble’

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...

Cotton worms devastate Raqqa crops in latest blow to struggling agricultural sector

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 ...

What’s next for the millions of internally displaced Syrians? A month-long reporting series from Syria Direct

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...

Justice and accountability after the Islamic State: ‘Few options’ for victims of IS war crimes

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...

Raqqa authorities struggle to identify the dead as funding cuts slow recovery effort

August 20

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...

‘A treasure house of Syria’s past’: Archaeologists, NGOs reckon with scale of cultural looting in post-IS Raqqa

August 16

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...

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

Tribal leaders agree to fight Islamic State in A-Raqqa

Record number of residents returning to Kobani

Turkish tanks at Syrian border

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