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 ...

French fighter jets bombed a series of ISIS sites in Raqqa, Syria, on Sunday in what officials ... which France’s President described as “an act of war.” ISIS claims Raqqa as the capital ...

The battle for Raqqa is entering its fifth and final phase. Before the end of 2017 ... in return for becoming a U.S. proxy in the Syrian ground war against Islamic State? Officially, the U.S ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Syrian security forces conduct significant raid against ISIS hideouts in Aleppo, killing three terrorists and detaining four, marking the first publicly announced operation of its kind by the Islamist ...