This includes the city of Raqqa, which the group liberated from ISIS in October 2017 and has maintained control over since. While large portions of central Syria are simply classified by the ISW ...

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Raqqa is the first provincial capital to fall to the rebels, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Mr. Jalali said that a gun battle between rebels and soldiers outside his palace ...

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France launched a massive air attack against the Islamic State on Sunday by dropping bombs on Raqqa, Syria, the group's de facto capital. The airstrikes come after Friday's terrorist attacks ...