Raqqa’s buildings were mostly destroyed before and during the battle to liberate the city from IS, in Raqqa, Syria, July 20, 2019. (S. ... in Raqqa, Syria, July 20, 2019. (S.

For the last five years, photographer Alice Martins has documented Raqqa before and after Islamic State occupation. ... looking behind her as she waited to buy bread in a small shop in Raqqa, Syria.

This Oct. 19, 2017 frame grab made from drone video shows damaged buildings in Raqqa, Syria two days after Syrian Democratic Forces said that military operations to oust the Islamic State group ...

Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by US special forces, celebrate at the frontline in the Islamic State (ISIS) group jihadists crumbling stronghold of Raqqa on October 16, 2017 ...

The cities have been besieged by ISIS since 2014. — -- Separated by less than 250 miles, the people of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria are awaiting liberation from the Islamic State (ISIS ...

The U.S. military estimates the Islamic State now controls just three percent of Iraq and only five percent of Syria after the fall of Raqqa, Syria to U.S.-backed fighters more than three years ...

Raqqa became the first Syrian city to fall under its control in early 2014. It would be referred to from then on as the group’s de facto capital. Over the next three years, it was used as a base ...

Obama is making U.S. special operators and locals do most of the fighting. When ISIS falls, Iraq and Syria need better leaders to keep this from happening again. So, what’s the plan?

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS, also known as IS) has been driven from Raqqa, its major stronghold in Syria, but the violence grinds on as the Syrian regime, under the rule of dictator ...

Raqqa will be rebuilt again, she said, as it was after the Persians razed it in the sixth century and again after the Mongols destroyed it in the 13th century. “We own this city. We’ll stay here.

U.S.-backed forces still struggle against determined ISIS fighters in the desert.

U.S.-backed Arab and Kurdish ground forces declared victory on Friday after clearing Islamic State from Raqqa, the capital of what the jihadists once called their caliphate. This is also a victory ...