Wladimir van Wilgenburg in AYN AL ISSA – Since June 6, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have slowly taken the city of Raqqa from Islamic State, street...
Tag - Raqqa
Representatives of the Coalition and US State Department met local officials in Raqqa on August 6, the third such meeting in as many weeks.
The Coalition confirmed it has supplied commercial drones to the SDF for reconnaissance, as July 20 video shows SDF's first use of an armed drone
The SDF and the Syrian regime have agreed to deconflict counter-ISIS operations in the area around Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, a US-led Coalition spokesperson told...
Further US-facilitated shipments of humanitarian aid to Syria have arrived north of Raqqa, Syria, a US State Department official told Grasswire
The WFP and UNHCR are using a newly opened land route to the northeast of Syria to expand aid delivery in war-torn Raqqa
The Coalition said that "there is insufficient evidence to find that civilians were harmed" after a March airstrike on a school in Mansoura, near Raqqa
A spokesperson for the Coalition told Grasswire that media has "vetted" the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and it "has been found wanting."
The Times claimed the UN "has yet to begin any relief efforts in Tabqa" which "leaves the United States to serve as a stopgap for the most immediate needs." We...
The US State Dept has begun providing "humanitarian and stabilization assistance" in Raqqa as the number of displaced people since April 1 nears 180,000