Raqqa is the capital of the geographic “caliphate,” but it is also a symbol. The geographic caliphate in Syria and Iraq is in its final days, but this is not the end — of either the ...

was found guilty of holding three Yazidi women and six Yazidi children as slaves in Raqqa between 2014-2016 in September last year. It is the first time IS crimes against the Yazidis, one of Iraq ...

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Military forces in Syria have begun a new offensive to reclaim the city of Raqqa from I-S militants. It comes as fighting continues in the Iraqi city of Mosul, with both battles aiming to drive ...

The increase comes as local ground forces backed by air support from a U.S.-led coalition close in on the Islamic State’s two main urban bastions — Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq.

chief Mazloum Abdi on Wednesday announced a “special amnesty” after meeting with notables from the Arab-majority city of Raqqa in northern Syria. “Coinciding with the Eid spirit, and keen to ...

as the city connects the two main Islamic State strongholds of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. With Sinjar falling back under Kurdish control, the supply route used by ISIS between its two major ...

There are fears Daesh may be planning to kill all remaining Christians in its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa after the militant group banned members of the faith from leaving the city. Syrian ...

Islamist militants belonging to a splinter group of Al Qaeda on Wednesday bombed a large Shiite Muslim shrine in the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa ... Lebanon and Iraq before Sunni rebels took ...

An enigmatic international spy in the service of Russia and a Spanish agent of Moroccan origin working for Europol coincide in the Syrian city of Raqqa, an enclave of the self-proclaimed Islamic ...