Raqqa in a sentence

Ms Begum left Raqqa with her husband in January 2017, but they were eventually split up, as she claimed he was arrested for spying and tortured.

Subsequently, Foley was murdered on Aug. 19, 2014, in the Raqqa region of Syria.

Mosul was underway, and the threats from Raqqa were continuing to increase even as the Islamic State strengthened its defense positions week after week.

Ain Issa commands the northern approaches to Raqqa, former capital of the Islamic State caliphate, which Kurdish fighters recaptured from the militants two years ago in one of the biggest victories of a U.S.-led campaign.

Amnesty International has carried out in-depth field investigations, interviews with survivors and witnesses in both Raqqa and Mosul, documenting hundreds of cases of civilians killed in Coalition strikes.

At nine months pregnant, psychologically and physically injured from the torture, she resettled back into the house near Raqqa.

Casting comprehensive insight into geopolitical hot-spot turmoil — whether in Algiers, Lebanon, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Mosul, Raqqa, Damascus or Russia— “The Bureau” has mapped out a contemporary world under surveillance and engulfed in cyber war.

Earlier this week, it beheaded a captive in the Syrian stronghold of Raqqa with a three-foot sword.

Earlier Wednesday, three IS militants targeted the SDF in Raqqa, once the de facto IS capital at the height of the militants’ power.

Even as Raqqa's people gradually rebuild, the graves found in houses, parks, destroyed buildings are a grim reminder of the horrors perpetrated by the militantsmassive violence inflicted on the city to remove them.

Haddouchi was unable withdraw the money in Raqqa because of the lack of international banks.

In 2017, Russia said it was investigating whether one of its airstrikes on the city of Raqqa killed him and 300 other fighters.

Isis claimed an overnight suicide attack by two of its fighters in its former capital Raqqa, which killed and injured 25 people.

Kurdish YPG militias did most of the ground fighting against Islamic State, including recapturing their stronghold, Raqqa.

Letts also confessed that he was pleased when he first heard news of the Paris terror attacks in 2015, and blamed his reaction on his experiences of coalition airstrikes in Raqqa.

On Oct 3, US State Department representatives visited the Future Syria Party's headquarters in the Syrian city of Raqqa and told Khalaf and party president Ibrahim al- Kaftan that American efforts in the region were aimed at mediation.

SDF forces finally seized Raqqa in 2017 with the backing of Coalition forces.

She lived in the Syrian city of Raqqa and married a Dutch jihadi named Yago Riedijk with whom she had three children, all of whom died as infants.

Stary said some of his clients accepted they could be imprisoned in Australia under laws that make just traveling to the former Islamic State group stronghold of al-Raqqa a crime.

Tabqa was previously a stronghold of the Islamic State group, and is on the road to the city of Raqqa, which was IS’ de facto capital, until it lost both in 2017.