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LATEST FROM Raqqa

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...

Raqqa residents unable to afford healthcare as private hospitals operate with ‘no oversight’

August 16

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 ...

Raqqa pupils and teachers prepare for new school year after ‘pitch-black darkness’ of IS rule

August 15

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...

‘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...

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