For the previous two weeks, residents of Raqqa and the Islamic State had been bracing for President Obama to make good on his promise to start bombing the Islamic State.

French fighter jets bombed a series of ISIS sites in Raqqa, Syria, on Sunday in what officials described as a major bombardment. The airstrikes came two days after a series of terrorist attacks in ...

Raqqa: View From The ... Steve, when I was in Raqqa in February, I told you it looked like the pictures of Dresden, the German city bombed by the Allies during World War II. INSKEEP: Yeah.

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.

Unexploded ordnance poses an elevated risk in the wake of the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, as displaced Syrians return home.

In Tabqa, a town near Raqqa that McGurk visited, I met a father whose 12-year old daughter died while lined up at a bakery that was bombed by the US-led coalition.

Following the reported white phosphorus attacks on June 8th and 9th, Raqqa’s main commercial and social avenue — February 23rd Street — reportedly came under three straight days of bombing.

War on ISIS: U.S. Bombing Pushes Final Christians Out of Raqqa Published Aug 10, 2017 at 8:35 AM EDT Updated Aug 10, 2017 at 11:34 AM EDT A damaged building is seen in Raqqa city, Syria, on July 28.

Raqqa's residents have been traumatized by years of brutal ISIS rule and an intense bombing campaign by the U.S.-led coalition trying to root out the militants, but there are slivers of light ...

Militias declare victory in city ISIS considered its capital 02:30. RAQQA -- Militias declared victory Tuesday in Raqqa, the city the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria considered its capital.But it ...

The U.S. has engaged its most intense bombing campaign since Vietnam in order to support militia forces in the battle for Raqqa, the Syrian city the Islamic State calls their capital. Capturing ...