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Nadhira Aziz looked on as Iraqi Civil Defence workers dug out the bodies of her sister and niece from her house in the Old City where they were killed by an airstrike in June. By the end of the battle for Iraq’s second largest city,...

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***DO NOT PUBLISH WITHOUT CHECKING WITH CRAIG ALLEN***Residents gathered near dusk in a small amusement park in Raqqa on the first day of Eid, which Mohammed Arbush had opened in 1995 and struggle to keep running since. It had rides, a ferris wheel, a merry...

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Young boys cooled off in the summer heat in the Euphrates under a destroyed bridge in Raqqa. The river borders the South of the city and the only two bridges are still destroyed after being bombed during the operation to defeat ISIS last year....

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A group of volunteers worked to collect unclaimed bodies, most of them suspected of being ISIS fighters, from the ruins of the Old City district where the militants made their last stand. Even more than 8 months after fighting has ended officials suspect there are...

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SDF comrades and family family members cry at the graveside of Adhem Sheko who was killed fighting in Raqqa on the 11th of October at the martyrs cemetery in Kobane. Syria - 10.14.2017...

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25-year-old Mohammed Sheko feeds his SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) comrade, 18-year-old Salah Al Raqawi, at a hospital for injured SDF fighters in Kurdish controlled Syria. The men were both injured in the prtevious few days while fighting ISIS in Raqqa. Syria - 10.13.2017...

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Iraqi Special Forces soldiers carried away an injured ISIS fighter who had surrendered, moments after they dragged him out of the basement of a destroyed building in the Meydan area of the Old City....