...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,...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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,...
...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...