Once a stronghold of the opposition against Mr Al Assad before falling to ... a decade – some hoping for Raqqa's ...

Raqqa, Syria — The coalition ... explained to their troops before the battle the importance of retaking the capital of the so-called caliphate. “After what they did to our [Christian] people ...

The overthrow followed a 13-year civil war, which started after ... Syria. In the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel seized the Golan Heights, about 60km (40 miles) south of Damascus, from Syria, before ...

like the Jews before them and the secular Muslims who fear they might be next. Raqqa, Syria — The soldiers of the Syriac Military Council sit on a rug in an abandoned home in the urban wreckage ...

France launched a massive air attack against the Islamic State on Sunday by dropping bombs on Raqqa, Syria, the group's de facto capital. The airstrikes come after Friday's terrorist attacks ...

A car bomb attack in the Syrian city of Raqqa, carried out by the Islamic State ... on the eastern bank of the Euphrates river even after the remnants of the ISIS "caliphate" were crushed in ...

According to Suriya television, after fierce ... and Zamla south of Raqqa (520 kilometers away from Damascus), Suriya television said on Sunday citing a spokesman for the Syrian army command.