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RAQQA, Syria — Raqqa city was once a bustling capital of the verdant province of the same name, fought over intensely by the major players in Syria's ruinous seven-year civil war.
"Decoding Raqqa", a crowd-participant project of Amnesty International and Airwars.org has been launched, with the aim of mapping out the under-reported destruction of the former capital of the ...
Inside a formerly ISIS-occupied building in the western suburbs of Raqqa, Syria Drugs found inside possibly shed light on the level of pressure militants faced.
Three years after Raqqa's liberation from Islamist militants by Syrian Kurdish forces and 10 years after the start of the Syrian civil war, the city that was once the home base for ISIS is ...
Today Raqqa is ruins and rubble, it’s not a city anymore,” he said from Dortmund, Germany, where he now lives. Hassoun was an activist in the city, reporting on ISIS crimes.
There are about 900 U.S. troops inside Syria advising and assisting. — -- U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish and Arab rebel forces have begun the long-awaited offensive to retake Raqqa from ISIS ...
The battle for ISIS’ de facto capital in Syria is nearing its end but on the ground, lives are still being shattered and society torn apart.
A U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab force claimed a major victory Tuesday, saying it had taken full control of Raqqa, the Islamic State's former de facto capital, after a four-month-long offensive.