He points to a crayon drawing he created this summer, when he arrived at a U.S. government-supported childcare center in Raqqa, Syria ... had to work through that before we could start educating ...

The Syrian city of Raqqa is blanketed in despair ... He was a firefighter before the war. His wife has a university degree in English but also hasn't been able to find work.

Three years after Raqqa's liberation from Islamist militants by Syrian Kurdish forces and 10 ... which was looted during the early days of the war before ISIS took it over. He said ISIS destroyed ...

Raqqa is the last city of any consequence still held by Islamic State in either Syria or Iraq ... a lack of power and water. Before the civil war broke out, the city had more than 200,000 ...

He wrote about his experiences in a book called "Raqqa am Rhein" (Raqqa on the ... little many in the West actually know about Syria before the war. A similar realization is taking place now ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a United Kingdom-based war monitor, estimates the total death toll to be about 610,000. Even before the ... SDF control are Raqqa, Qamishli and Hasakkeh.

STOCKHOLM - Prosecutors on May 27 charged a Swedish militant over the 2014 killing of a Jordanian pilot, who was burned to ...

officially broke ties with the group before HTS’s formation, rebranding itself as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, and then HTS. The UN estimates that, between March 2011 and March 2021, Syria’s war ...

Once a stronghold of the opposition against Mr Al Assad before falling to jihadists, Raqqa ... 1.5 million Syrian pounds ($40 per month). His priority after having been through war, devastation ...

Jan. 2014 - An al Qaeda splinter group seizes Raqqa before grabbing territory ... by foreign jihadists coming to Syria. * Sept. 2015 - Russia joins the war on Assad's side, deploying warplanes ...

Syrian security forces conduct significant raid against ISIS hideouts in Aleppo, killing three terrorists and detaining four, ...

Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Swedish jihadist over the 2014 killing of a Jordanian pilot, who was burned to death in a ...