Syrian government forces raise a national flag and an image of President Bashar al-Assad at Tabqa air base in norther Syria's Raqa region on October...
Picture taken on October 21, 2017 shows a general view of heavily damaged buildings in Raqa, after a Kurdish-led force expelled the Islamic State...
Syrian youth uses his cell phone to film the destroyed vehicles and heavily damaged buildings down a street in Raqa on October 20 after a Kurdish-led...
Fighter of the Syrian Democratic Forces stands guard on a rooftop in Raqa on October 20 after retaking the city from Islamic State group fighters....
Woman cries as she looks at her house in Raqa on October 20 after a Kurdish-led force expelled the Islamic State group from the northern Syrian city....
This picture taken no November 6, 2021 shows an aerial view of the Clock Tower Square in Syria's northern city of Raqa, which was formerly used for...
Child plays in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, on August 21, 2019. - The Kurdish-led Syrian...
Man walks through a street in Syria's devastated city of Raqa on January 9, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / DELIL SOULEIMAN
Member of the Syrian Arab-Kurdish forces places a cross in the rubble ahead of a Christmas celebration at the heavily-damaged Armenian Catholic...
Rojda Felat, a Syrian Democratic Forces commander, walks with her group's flag at the iconic Al-Naim square in Raqa on October 17, 2017. - US-backed...
Member of the Syrian Democratic Forces , backed by US special forces, looks out from a building at the frontline in Raqa on October 16, 2017 in the...
British volunteer fighter 'Macer Gifford' shoots his sniper rifle at ISIS positions in the late hours of the evening on August 18, 2017 in Raqqa Five...
Syrian woman, fled from clashes between the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant militants and Democratic Union Party forces in the Ar-Raqqah Governorate...
Syrians fleeing from clashes between the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant militants and Democratic Union Party forces in the Ar-Raqqah Governorate of...
Syrians fleeing from clashes between the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant militants and Democratic Union Party forces in the Ar-Raqqah Governorate of...
Syrian woman walks past destruction in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, on August 11, 2021. -...
Woman walks in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, on December 20, 2020. - The Kurdish-led Syrian...
Man rides his bicycle in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, on December 20, 2020. - The...
Child pushes a construction cart in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, on August 21, 2019. - The...
Picture taken on April 14, 2019 shows a member of Raqa Civil Council 's first responders team holding remains found in a mass grave in the northern...
Shepherd stand with his flock of sheep on a road in the western neighborhood of Jazrah on the outskirts of Raqqa on October 30, 2017 in Raqqa, Syria....
Fighter of the Syrian Democratic Forces pushes his amputee comrade as they gather with others at the stadium in Raqa to celebrate on October 20 after...
Fighter of the Syrian Democratic Forces stands guard on a rooftop in Raqa on October 20 after retaking the city from Islamic State group fighters....
Kurdish female fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces gather during a celebration at the iconic Al-Naim square in Raqa on October 19 after retaking...
Kurdish female fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces gather during a celebration at the iconic Al-Naim square in Raqa on October 19 after retaking...
Kurdish female fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces gather during a celebration at the iconic Al-Naim square in Raqa on October 19 after retaking...
Kurdish female fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces gather during a celebration at the iconic Al-Naim square in Raqa on October 19 after retaking...
Member of the Syrian Democratic Forces runs to take cover from sniper shots near the central hospital of Raqa on October 1, 2017. Syrian fighters...
Picture taken on September 5, 2017 shows smoke billowing out following a coalition air strike in the western al-Daraiya neighbourhood of the...
Smoke billows in Raqa on September 4 as Syrian Democratic Forces , a US backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, battle to retake the northern Syrian city from...
Female member of the Syrian Democratic Forces , a US backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, holds a position inside a building in an area close to the Old...
Picture taken on August 4, 2017 shows a displaced Syrian child, who fled from the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold of Raqa, sitting behind...
Syrians clear up the rubble of their houses that were destroyed during clashes on the outskirts of Raqa, on July 19 as Syrian Democratic Forces, a...
Smoke billows following an airstrike on the western frontline of Raqa on July 15 during an offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces , an alliance of...
Member of the Syrian Democratic Forces , an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, looks at a damaged bridge in eastern Raqa on July 13 during an...
Damaged buildings are seen in western Raqa on July 12 during an offensive by Syrian Democratic Forces , an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, to...
Shirin and Kazîwar , members of the Kurdish female Women's Protection Units engage in conversation next to Kalashnikov assault rifles on a house...
Syrian civilians stand at the site where a Syrian government forces aircraft fell after it was shot down by militants of the Islamic State group over...
Member of the Islamic Kurdish Front aims at a position of fellow Kurdish fighters from the Committees for the Protection of the Kurdish People during...
This picture taken no November 6, 2021 shows an aerial view of the Clock Tower Square in Syria's northern city of Raqa, which was formerly used for...
This picture taken no November 6, 2021 shows an aerial view of the Naim roundabout in Syria's northern city of Raqa, which was formerly used for...
Syrian student walks to school past damaged buildings in the northern city of Raqa, on September 23, 2021.
Abdulhamid Hana, a 50-year-old Syrian pigeon keeper, releases one of his birds on the roof of his home in Syria's east central city of Raqa on March...
Abdulhamid Hana, a 50-year-old Syrian pigeon keeper, holds onto one of his birds on the roof of his home in Syria's east central city of Raqa on...
Street vendor selling cotton candy crosses a road in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, on...
Children run past a gun-mounted truck manned by Turkey-backed Syrian fighters near the rebel-controlled town of Tal Abyad in the northern Syria's...
Woman stands in front of a bullet riddled facade in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, on August...
Women walk in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, on August 21, 2019. - The Kurdish-led Syrian...
Woman walks in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, on August 21, 2019. - The Kurdish-led Syrian...
Children cross the road as cars drive by in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State group, on May 1, 2019. -...
Picture taken on February 14, 2019 shows a general view of Della square, in the northern Syrian city of Raqa. - In 2014, jihadists of the Islamic...
Young man carries a bag of bread on his head as he walks along a metalic beam in the northern Syrian city of Raqa on February 14, 2019. - In 2014,...
Picture taken on October 15 shows an Abd al-Ibrahim, whose home was destroyed during fighting, as he rests on his trip to supply water to his family...
Abu Mohamed holds a mine that was left by the Islamic State group in Raqa on January 16, 2018. The Islamic State group was ousted from its de facto...
Syrian men walk amid the rubble of damaged buildings in the northern Syrian city of Raqa, on January 16, 2018 after a huge military operation led on...
Fighter of the Syrian Democratic Forces stands guard on a rooftop in Raqa on October 20 after retaking the city from Islamic State group fighters....
Female fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces gather during a celebration at the iconic Al-Naim square in Raqa on October 19 after retaking the...
Syrian child sits in a military field hospital after he was injured by a mine which exploded when a group of civilians were escaping the Islamic...
Rojda Felat, a Syrian Democratic Forces commander, waves her group's flag at the iconic Al-Naim square in Raqa on October 17, 2017. - US-backed...