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...
Jul. 29, 2018
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...
Jun. 25, 2018
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 ...
May. 2, 2018
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...
Apr. 4, 2018
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...
Feb. 15, 2018
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...
Feb. 14, 2018
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...
Jan. 31, 2018
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...
Jan. 24, 2018
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...
