Once considered the Islamic State’s de facto capital, the Syrian city of Raqqa is slowly recovering, nearly two years after its liberation ... amend the situation before it’s too late ...

After taking the city from them last year, the U.S. said it was committed to "stabilizing" Raqqa as part of its offensive against ISIS. The Syria Transition ... that tactic before the Raqqa ...

It should scarcely have come as a surprise to President Obama that he could not reach an agreement with Vladimir Putin on Syria at the G20 meeting. The President and Secretary Kerry have now been ...

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS ... U.S.-led international coalition after four months of intense fighting. The defeat of the jihadist group in Raqqa is certainly good news, but the ...

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

151; -- Four hundred U.S. Marines will be leaving Syria soon after completing their ... artillery unit arrived in May before the offensive to retake Raqqa, according to officials, and it provided ...

RAQQA, Syria (AFP) — A year after a US-backed alliance of Syrian ... are asked to show their faces to female security members before entering public buildings. “If there wasn’t fear about ...

Women in the Syrian city of Raqqa say their lifestyle drastically changed after U.S.-backed forces freed ... it would take a long time before the group could enforce its progressive ideas among ...

The city of Raqqa symbolises the tragic fate of Syria over the past 12 years ... public hangings and slave auctions – before being bombed and then liberated in 2017 by an international ...

Rapid advances by Russian- and Iranian-backed government forces in eastern Syria are thwarting ... into Islamic State territory after winning the battle for Raqqa. An expansion of territory ...

A new version of the Islamic State in Syria that is more pragmatic and prone to the demands of cooperation and alliance making is possible after its defeat in Raqqa The Russian intervention that ...