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In ruined Raqqa, cracks appear after the fall of the Assad regime
The former capital of the ISIS caliphate in Syria is not immune to international urban trends: in the ruined city, an ‘I Love Raqqa’ sign now stands in the middle of Al Naim Square, where just a few ...
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Watching Syria’s War
Edited by Liam Stack After taking control ... prisoners taken by the rebels. Raqqa is the first provincial capital to fall to the rebels, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
I quit job as Brit banker to fight ISIS monsters who used babies as shields – I’m terrified they’ll return to UK streets
MACER Gifford watched as bloodied ISIS terrorists limped out of the bombed-out city of Raqqa and into the Syrian desert, ...
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Woman who kept Yazidi women and children as slaves in Syria jailed by Swedish court
A woman who kept Yazidi women and children as slaves in Raqqa, Syria, during the rule of the ... Stockholm District Court said, after ISIS carried out attacks on Yazidi villages in Northern ...
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Syria: Kurdish-led attack on Isis-held Raqqa
US-BACKED Syrian Kurdish militia launched a second offensive against the Islamic State (Isis) stronghold of Raqqa yesterday. Commanders of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) — chiefly the Kurdish YPG ...