Raqqa, Syria — The coalition airstrikes lit up the night sky, perhaps a mile and a half away. The blast appears to be near the Old City, where ISIS is making its last stand, as it did in Mosul ...

The city’s post-IS local authorities are, however, starting to act. Made up of 20 to 30 people, Raqqa civil council’s first responders team has been tasked with uncovering mass graves ...

Syria’s Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces described the attack as ‘one of the deadliest’ against it in a while.

According to a spokesperson, the MFS has around 200 fighters in the Raqqa operation including 50 inside the city. We don't need another genocide against us, it's enough. We used to be poor before ...

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The Syrian Democratic Forces coalition announced at a news conference in Raqqa the city was liberated from IS militants on October 20. Russian Defense Ministry compared US coalition bombing of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Two Syrian women worked with the Swedish news organization Expressen to secretly film what life is like in Raqqa, the Syrian city ISIS has claimed as its capital.

According to the official source at the Syrian foreign ministry the coalition uses terrorists to complicate and prolong the crisis in Syria TASS, October 21. The US-led coalition’s actions in ...

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An enigmatic international spy in the service of Russia and a Spanish agent of Moroccan origin working for Europol coincide in the Syrian city of Raqqa, an enclave of the self-proclaimed Islamic ...