Expulsion of ISIS from the Syrian ... Raqqa. ISIS is surrounded, but the fighting will continue, block by block, floor by floor, room by room. It is as brutal as any urban warfare since World War ...

They are a moderating force in the region, 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 ...

AMMAN - A grim smell hangs in the air around the battered streets of northeastern Syria ... Raqqa city. With only modest equipment and minimal expertise, the group has to identify the dead before ...

A woman who kept Yazidi women and children as slaves in Raqqa, Syria, during the rule of the ... crimes against humanity and gross war crimes. Six children and three women from the ethnic and ...

RAQQA, Syria - On the front line against the Islamic State (IS) group in its Syrian capital Raqqa, a battalion of crucifix-wearing fighters is preparing to unseat the militants in a fight for the ...

Kurdistan Region - Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) chief Mazloum Abdi on Wednesday announced a “special amnesty” after meeting with notables from the Arab-majority city of Raqqa in ...

TASS/. The air force of the US-led coalition downed a Syrian warplane near the city of Raqqa in northern Syria, SANA news agency said on Sunday citing a statement of the Syrian army command.

Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria ... war broke out in 2011. September 22-23, 2014 – The United States and allies launch airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria, focusing on the city of Raqqa.

"Washington’s imagination is that IS controlled in Syria only Raqqa - a provincial city, where about 200,000 lived before the war, and by beginning of the coalition’s five-months operation to ...

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