Raqqa

News Hour:  U.S.-backed militias raised a flag inside Raqqa stadium on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said, as a four-month battle to take Islamic State’s Syrian capital came to an end. The fighting was over but the alliance...

News Hour: Fifteen new cases of polio have been confirmed in Syria, including a child who may have caught the disease in Raqqa, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Aid workers are unable to vaccinate...

News Hour: At least 33 people were killed in an air strike that hit a school sheltering displaced people near the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa, a group that monitors the war in Syria said on...

News Hour: The head of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said a U.S.-backed assault to drive Islamic State from its de-facto capital Raqqa would begin at the start of April and the YPG would be taking...

News Hour: Air strikes killed 14 civilians, including six children, on Thursday in countryside around Raqqa city in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The warplanes were believed to belong to the U.S.-led...

News Hour: U.S.-backed Syrian militias will tighten the chokehold on Islamic State’s base in Raqqa, after cutting the last main road out of the city, a spokesman said on Tuesday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) severed...

News Hour: A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian armed groups has launched an operation to retake the northern city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of Islamic State in Syria, the group said on Sunday. The new...