‘Next time we will not survive’ – Middle East Christian refugee
...A 71-year-old Catholic Christian, identified as H. S. H., recalled how he and his brother fled Aleppo, Syria on 27 December 2013, to find refuge at his farm in Raqqa,...
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Iraq: More than 200 mass graves with thousands of bodies discovered
Embed from Getty Images Syrian forces excavate a site, said to be a mass grave, in the west of Raqqa governorate in December last year. More than 200 mass graves...
Iraqi Christian Rita was sold four times on the IS sex slave market
...Raqqa, northern Syria, to Abu Kamal, a city near the Iraqi border, where she suffered for another 16 months and was then moved to Deir ez-Zor, 130km northwest. During that...
Syria: Christians and Yazidis among 250,000 displaced in Afrin
...State in Kobani, Raqqa and other Syrian cities, the US proposal to include the YPG in a large ‘border security force’ to patrol inside Syria’s borders was vehemently opposed by...
Syria: Damascus churches damaged as Christian neighbourhoods hit
...worry Why Syrian and Iraqi Christians eye different futures Syriac Christians in front line in battle against IS in Raqqa Peace talks are due to resume in Geneva on 21...
23 Catholic missionaries killed in 2017
...care workers who have been abducted and whose fate is unknown, such as Fr. Paolo Dall’Oglio, kidnapped in 2013 in Raqqa, Syria, or Sr. Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti, abducted 11...
Seven Christians smuggled out of IS-held Raqqa
...and Armenian origin and came from the city of Raqqa, which IS in 2014 claimed as the capital of its “caliphate”. All the churches in Raqqa, including the Armenian church...
Syriac Christians in front line in battle against IS in Raqqa
Embed from Getty Images The Syriac army is a member of the coalition force fighting to liberate Syria from IS. While the battle for Raqqa is raging on, Syriac Christians...
Young Syrian tells how he survived ‘worst-case scenario’ of kidnap and torture by Islamic State
...distance they could just see the city of Raqqa, where IS still has its Syrian headquarters. The driver slowed down and stopped when an IS fighter, dressed all in black,...
‘ISIS on a mission to exterminate Christians’
...Raqqa – IS’s de facto capital – because to lose either of these bases would constitute an “existential threat”, whereas other territory is expendable. World Watch Monitor has reported on...