Rebel groups have launched the largest offensive in years against government forces, capturing the city of Aleppo.
Raqqa, Syria — The coalition airstrikes lit up the night sky, perhaps a mile and a half away. The blast appears to be near the Old City, where ISIS is making its last stand, as it did in Mosul ...
Islamic State and the crisis in Iraq and Syria in maps The desperate fight for IS 'capital' Raqqa IS wives: Why I joined the 'caliphate' in Raqqa The Syrian Observatory, a UK-based group ...
Russian military police have taken control of a base near the Syrian city of Raqqa that was controlled by U.S. forces until a few days ago, the TASS news agency reported on Thursday By Posted on ...
Marwan Hisham tells MEE how he went from activist, to journalist, to the author of the book, 'Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War' Marwan Hisham is from Raqqa, which eventually became ...
The rekindling of fighting in Syria comes after a four-year lull in a civil war that first broke out in 2011. The uneasy stalemate among the country’s various hostile factions was broken when rebel ...