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Macleans.ca
August 10, 2017
Syrians fleeing from clashes between the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militants and Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces in the Ar-Raqqah Governorate of Syria, wait at the Turkish-Syrian border to cross into Turkey in 2014 (Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images). But the Canadian governmentÃâà...
Reliefweb
July 12, 2017
Twenty-three (23)* cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type-2 (cVDPV2) have been confirmed in Syria —22 cases are from Mayadeen (Al Mayadin) district, Deir Ez-Zor (Dayr Az Zawr) governorate, and 1 case from Tell Abyad district, Raqqa (Ar Raqqah) governorate. The most recent case hadÃâà...
SITE Intelligence Group
March 21, 2017
The Islamic State (IS) revealed its launch of “Al-Bayan Channel,” a television channel across which it broadcasts programming for people in its held-territories, in a video focusing on two foreign fighters and their children and upbringing in Syria's ar-Raqqah governorate. You do not have access to view theÃâà...
Lima Charlie News (blog)
July 20, 2016
The Tabqa Dam, in the Ar-Raqqah province of Syria, fell to the Free Syrian Army affiliated Uwais al-Qarni Brigade on 11 February 2013, along with the village of Al Thawrah near the dam. A few months later a temporary ceasefire agreement was negotiated allowing the Syrian Government to sendÃâà...
Caribbean360.com
November 9, 2015
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Monday November 9, 2015 – Residents of Trinidad and Tobago were shocked and outraged on Friday over a recruitment video produced by the Ar-Raqqah Province of Islamic State (IS/ISIS) featuring what appears to be four fighters from the twin-island state. One of the men,Ãâà...
The Guardian
September 23, 2014
Syrians wait to cross the Syrian-Turkish border after fleeing clashes between Isis militants and Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces in the Tal Abyad district of Syria's Ar-Raqqah governorate. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ãâ÷ Syrians gathering on Turkish-SyrianÃâà...
The Hindu
September 29, 2013
A Syrian government air raid struck a high school in a rebel-held city in the country's north on Sunday, killing at least 12 people, most of them students, activists said. The airstrike took place in the city of Raqqa, which is located on the Euphrates and is the only provincial capital under rebel control in Syria'sÃâà...