Raqqa

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

Mar 27,2019

Souriyeh / سوريّة: Women’s voices from Syria

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

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

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

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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...

‘Temporary defeats’: Syria analyst Hassan Hassan on the future of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq

February 14

The Islamic State (IS) lost nearly all of its territory in Syria and Iraq over the past year. “More than 98 percent of the land once claimed by [the Islamic State] has been...

Joshua Landis: ‘The war is coming to an end, and the US should let it end’

January 31

The Syrian government controls most of the country’s major cities. Yet rebuilding Homs, Aleppo and other Syrian cities destroyed by airstrikes and ground fighting with rebel...

The network: A virtual hunt for suspected Islamic State members in Syria

January 24

AMMAN: Aghid al-Khodr wakes up early, before the sun rises. At his home in an undisclosed location in Germany, he begins his work. For the next 15 hours, al-Khodr sits glued to h...

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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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