— -- A formerly ISIS-occupied building in Raqqa, Syria, sheds light on the pressures its militants face as the U.S.-led coalition attempts to retake the war-ravaged city. ABC News ventured ...

US-backed fighters said Tuesday that major military operations in Raqqa are over, marking a significant moment for the war on ISIS – and in some ways, its end.

The Syrian city of Raqqa is blanketed in despair. Residents survive in a wasteland of war-warped buildings and shattered concrete. They sleep exposed to the elements in homes with blown-out walls ...

The Syrian city of Raqqa, ... including the outbreak of Syria’s civil war in 2011 and the 2014 takeover by Islamic State, ... the man who recollected the old days before war and destruction, ...

The battle to retake ISIS' de facto capita begins. — -- U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab rebel forces have begun the offensive to retake ISIS' self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa, Syria. The force ...

I met Ayat in May when I visited Raqqa, Syria, to document the stories of those who survived the strikes by the U.S.-led coalition. Ayat told me that she suffered from a deep depression with no ...

The rise of ISIS was sparked when its former incarnation, the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq, or ISI, laid low before capitalizing on the Syrian civil war and a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

While U.S.-backed forces are inching forward in ISIS's remaining stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, the war against the terror group will grind on even after Raqqa falls.

(PHOTOS: Syria’s Slow-Motion Civil War) “It has been difficult being so close to our land and seeing others on it,” Ghanem said. Dressed in a crisply ironed beige galabiya (an ankle-length ...