alliance announced that the battle for Raqqa had officially begun. It is the final phase of a campaign - codenamed Operation Wrath of Euphrates - that was launched in November, shortly after Iraqi ...
The battle for Raqqa is far from won. But in the town of Ayn Issa, barely 35 miles (56km) north of the front lines, they are already looking at a future post-caliphate. On Wednesday, Brett McGurk ...
Although Raqqa is the capital of Daesh’s caliphate, it is believed that the last great battle of significance of this caliphate war will take place to the southeast, in Deir ez-Zor, where many ...
It is difficult to establish how many people have died in the battle for Raqqa. People interviewed by Reuters displaced by the fighting said air and artillery strikes have killed civilians ...
Israel has pummeled Lebanon with an unprecedented airstrike campaign in less than three weeks, killing over 1,400 people, injuring nearly 7,500 others and displacing more than one million people ...
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After the battle for Raqqa, Syria is likely to be effectively partitioned, with American-backed forces controlling the north, the Russian-backed regime controlling the west, and some small forces ...
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