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'Indiscriminate Strikes': Amnesty Criticizes U.S.-Led Coalition's Actions In Raqqa

4:56pm April 26, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

Amnesty International says the U.S.-led coalition offensive against ISIS in Raqqa used indiscriminate artillery force and killed nearly 10 times more civilians than the U.S. military has acknowledged.

A church near the school was destroyed during the fight to oust ISIS from Raqqa, Syria.

Determined To Seek An Education, Teenagers In Raqqa, Syria, Create Their Own School

1:20pm December 28, 2018

With their city in ruins and little international help, a group of teenagers decided to take matters into their own hands. They recruited teachers, found a building and set up classes for themselves.

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Raqqa's first responders use a digger to push through the rubble of a building likely destroyed in an airstrike carried out by the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS.

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'Entire Families Wiped Out': U.S. Airstrikes Killed Many Civilians In Syria

11:45am November 09, 2018

Rescuers working to dig out and identify corpses from last year's anti-ISIS offensive in Raqqa estimate there were "thousands" of civilian casualties. The U.S.-led coalition acknowledges 104.

A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by U.S. special forces, talks on the radio near Raqqa's stadium as they clear the last positions on the front line on Oct. 16, 2017. The city was an important Islamic State group stronghold.

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'This Is Not Liberation': Life In The Rubble Of Raqqa, Syria

1:21pm October 26, 2018

The city's slow recovery after ISIS rule is causing anger among residents who say they're left with little help from the countries that destroyed Raqqa.

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Schoolchildren are led through a dance routine at a U.S. government-supported childcare center in Raqqa.

In Syria, A School Helps Children Traumatized By War

7:50pm October 17, 2018

by Tom Bowman

"What we found is children had been so traumatized, they couldn't even recognize numbers or letters," says a U.S. official. "We had to work through that before we could start educating them again."

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A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the rebel group backed by the U.S.-led coalition, looks out upon the ruins of Raqqa last October, toward the end of the coalition's campaign to dislodge the Islamic State from its former stronghold.

U.S.-Led Coalition Accused Of 'Potential War Crimes' In Push To Reclaim Raqqa

6:40pm June 05, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

Amnesty International alleges that during last year's successful campaign to dislodge ISIS from the Syrian city, the coalition's airstrikes were "either disproportionate or indiscriminate or both."

Young men outside Raqqa, Syria, training to find and destroy hidden explosive devices left by retreating ISIS forces.

ISIS' Parting Gift To Its Former Capital: Thousands Of Explosive Booby Traps

8:18am February 19, 2018

by Tom Bowman

Raqqa may be cleared of ISIS fighters, but hidden throughout the city are thousands of hidden bombs. U.S. special forces and Syrians are training young men to disarm them.

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American-backed forces took control of the Islamic State's de-facto capital of Raqqa, Syria, last month, dealing a major blow to the extremist organization.

Fall Of Raqqa Delivers Sharp Blow To Islamic State's Media Operation

1:51pm November 06, 2017

by Samantha Raphelson

ISIS suffered an unprecedented drop in media output since the fall of Raqqa, according to BBC Monitoring. The decline suggests the majority of its media operation was based in its de-facto capital.

A picture taken on Oct. 20, 2017, shows writing about the so-called Islamic State group on a wall in the recaptured Syrian town of Mayadeen. The Red Cross is urging lawful treatment of foreign fighters who traveled to Syria to join the extremists.

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Red Cross Urges Fair And Lawful Treatment Of Captured ISIS Fighters

12:29pm October 26, 2017

by Bill Chappell

The remarks come days after a top U.S. envoy was quoted saying, "Our mission is to make sure that any foreign fighter who is here, who joined ISIS from a foreign country ... they will die here."

A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces walks on a building near Raqqa's stadium Monday, as they cleared the last positions on the front line in the fight against ISIS.

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ISIS Makes Last Stand At A Stadium In Raqqa, Its Doomed 'Capital'

12:24pm October 17, 2017

by Bill Chappell

As of Tuesday, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces control "more than 90 percent" of Raqqa, says U.S. Army Col. Ryan Dillon.

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