Raqqa (Arabic: ٱلرَّقَّة, romanized: ar-Raqqah, also al-Raḳḳa, Kurdish: Reqa) is a city in Syria on the North bank of the Euphrates River, about 160 kilometres (99 miles) east of Aleppo. It is …

The battle of Raqqa (2017), also known as the second battle of Raqqa, was the fifth and final phase of the Raqqa campaign (2016–2017) launched by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) …

Raqqa Governorate (Arabic: مُحافظة الرقة, romanized: Muḥāfaẓat ar-Raqqah, Kurdish: Parêzgeha Reqa) is one of the fourteen governorates of Syria. It is situated in the north of the country and …

Al-Raqqah, town, northern Syria, on the Euphrates River just west of its confluence with the Balīkh River. Al-Raqqah is on the site of an ancient Greek city, Nicephorium, and a later …

Raqqah is the capital of ISIL's caliphate, and ISIL enjoyed uncontested control over the city between 2014 and mid-2017, when opposition forces began to liberate the city.

Jul 27, 2020 · Raqqa is a city in Syria, best known for serving as the headquarters of ISIS between 2014 and 2017. While Raqqa became know to the world as the capital of the self …

Mar 29, 2021 · Ten years after the war began in Syria, Raqqa is slowly trying to move forward after being the centre of ISIS rule and some of war's greatest horrors. CBC’s Margaret Evans …

Jul 4, 2017 · Raqqa, in northern Syria, became the de facto capital of the "caliphate" proclaimed by so-called Islamic State (IS) three years ago. The provincial city was transformed under IS, …

Sep 7, 2006 · Taken together the medieval landscape belonging to the time of Harun al Rashid appears to form the largest early Islamic landscape west of Baghdad in the 9th century. …

Dec 15, 2017 · Nearly two months after its capture, Raqqah remains a rubble-strewn ghost town. The entire population — nearly 300,000 people — fled over more than four years of fighting, …