...are thought to still be holding 179 Christians taken from this one Syrian town alone. Some reports indicate that they have been moved to Raqqa, Islamic State’s stronghold in Syria....
...it feels better. I might not have water and electricity every day as I did in Raqqa, but I feel safer; inside I have peace. In Raqqa there was this...
...Iraq the city of Tikrit, a stretch of the main highway between Raqqa and Mosul and the recent government’s re-capture of Ramadi. The loss of land in Syria has cut...
...under the age of 16 had died fighting for IS so far in 2015, while 19 were used as suicide bombers. Residents of Raqqa said children were indoctrinated in training...
...to the IS fighters’ de facto Raqqa capital after the Syrian army was forced out of the city. No information on their fate has been learned since then. The 5th...
...Observatory for Human Rights, 110 hostages from Qaryatain, not all of them Chrsitian, have been transferred by IS forces to the militants’ de facto Raqqa capital. Long a pilgrimage site...
...from Christians in the Syrian city of Raqqa, which IS seized last year and proclaimed to be its capital. Khabour’s Assyrian Christians had resettled in Syria after 1933, fleeing the...
German author and former politician, Juergen Todenhoefer spoke with CNN after travelling into territory occupied by ISIS including Syrian cities Raqqa and Iraq’s second largest city Mosul. “I think the...
Rev. Hanna Jallouf, a Fransciscan friar, and friends at St. Joseph Convent in Knayeh, a village in northern Syria, in a 2008 photo. (Courtesy of Custody of the Holy Land)...
...Syria, so Syrians seem to be pressured to choose between Assad and Islamist radicals. From ISIS-controlled regions in Syria’s northern city of Raqqa reports of Christians have emerged of them...