cross-referenced news and research resources about
municipalities of Ar-Raqqah Governorate, Syria
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updated Wed. February 8, 2023
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Reliefweb
March 6, 2018
While offensives to defeat ISIL in Ar-Raqqah and Dayr al-Zawr appear to have successfully dislodged the terrorist group, the battles came at an extremely high cost to civilians. Even before the campaign to take Ar-Raqqah city began, the international coalition failed to take all feasible precautions to protectÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 6, 2018
It is critical that in the long run all humanitarian partners can continue providing much needed assistance to affected people in camps and towns without restriction. In Ar-Raqqah, the city's devastation is unparalleled and conditions remain unsafe. Many civilians trying to return home have been killed andÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
November 28, 2017
They then transferred us and others by buses to another group and then we were transferred to a camp in the Syrian city of Ar-Raqqah. We spent two weeks there and we learnt some religious provisions and how to use several weapons. By the end of these two weeks, they asked us to pledge allegiance toÃâà...
Sputnik International
September 6, 2017
The Commission is gravely concerned that this offensive has led to the internal displacement of some 190,000 persons, with the fate of some 20,000 others precarious as they remain trapped in ar-Raqqah city, many of them civilians that ISIL reportedly forced to concentrate in areas under its control," the UNÃâà...
Reliefweb
September 6, 2017
A number of local truces, including the so called “Four Towns Agreement”, incorporated evacuation agreements which resulted in the forced displacement ... others precarious as they remain trapped in ar-Raqqah city, many of them civilians that ISIL reportedly forced to concentrate in areas under its control.
bellingcat
August 29, 2017
Khassanbek is listed as a foreign terrorist fighter in France[6] and apparently lived in Lingolsheim near the city of Strasbourg. ... He married a woman of Chechen descent twelve years his senior in the Austrian town of Baden and planned to leave with her for Syria, it appeared when both were arrested byÃâà...
Long War Journal
June 6, 2017
A coalition of anti-Islamic State groups backed by the United States has officially begun its assault on the jihadist-held city of Raqqah in northern Syria. Raqqah ... The SDF now controls the terrain north of the Euphrates river from Tabqa all the way to the town of Madan, which is due east of Raqqah. MadanÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 20, 2017
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — On Sunday, media reported that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) entered the Raqqa city limits. "Near Ar Raqqah, 18 strikes engaged seven ISIS [Daesh] tactical units; destroyed 10 fighting positions, six barges, three ISIS headquarters, a tactical vehicle, an IED factory, and aÃâà...
ABC News
October 27, 2016
The city of Raqqa, also known as al-Raqqah and ar-Raqqah, is in northern Syria on the banks of the Euphrates River, about 50 miles south of the ... Syria the SDF has become the most reliable coalition partner fighting ISIS in Syria, taking back a swath of northern Syria, including the cities of Kobani, Manbij,Ãâà...
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