SANA- The United Nations confirmed that Raqqa city is living in tragic conditions, noting that 70 to 80 % of its buildings were devastated. The UN assessment mission visited Raqqa city on April 1 to assess the humanitarian situation there clarified that there are large quantities of unexploded ordnance and mines , Tass news agency quoted UN Assistant ...

SANA- Syrias Permanent Representatives at the UN Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari stressed that the US-led international coalition had completely destroyed Raqqa city under the pretext of fighting Daesh (ISIS) terrorist organizations. During a UN Security Council session held on Tuesday for discussing humanitarian situation in the city of Raqqa and al-Rukban ...

SANA New aerial photos published by the Russian Ministry of Defense on Saturday showed the scale of the massive destruction caused to Raqqa city by the airstrikes carried out by the illegal Washington-led international coalition during the second half of 2017. In a statement, the Ministry said that the aerial photos show the full-scale devastation ...

Reuters - Syrian government forces will advance soon to take Raqqa city, which U.S.-backed fighters seized from ISIS last month, a senior Iranian official said on Friday. Ali Akbar Velayati, the top adviser to Irans Supreme Leader, also accused the United States of seeking to divide Syria by stationing its forces east of the Euphrates river. We ...

American Herald Tribune | ROBERT FANTINA: One can be excused for being confused about the convoluted foreign policy of the United States. Things are bad enough when there is a reasonably sane, Apartheid Israel war-monger in the White House, but with the irrational Donald Trump as president, any semblance of logic and reason is absent. This is no ...

SANA Foreign and Expatriates Ministry called on the UN Security Council to immediately move to stop the brutal crimes committed by the international coalition led by the US against the Syrian people. In two letters sent to the UN Secretary General and Chairman of the Security Council, the Ministry said that the warplanes of the international ...

Alwaght- Following full retaking of Syrias northern city of Raqqa from ISIS terrorist group by the US-backed Kurdish militias, so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an incident called attention in the celebration ceremony that marked liberation of the destroyed city. A group of the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG) fighters raised a ...

SANA_ Russian Defense Ministry stressed that the urgent intention of west to allocate financial aid to the Syrian Raqqa suspicious amid their repeated refusals to deliver humanitarian aid to the Syrians affected by the war, considering that it aims to cover tracks of the barbaric bombing of the city by the US-led coalition. Raqqa has not managed ...

Sputnik News- The Kurdish-led SDF have been conducting the military campaign to liberate Raqqa from terrorists since November 2016. "Clashes inRaqqa continue. Claims that the city is completely liberated fromDaesh are false," the media representative ofthe Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) rebels, Mustafa Balli, has told Sputnik Turkey. The ...

RT | Neil Clark: As Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian adviser on Syria, has stated, if theres a worse place to be in the world at the moment than the Syrian city of Raqqa, then its hard to imagine. This week, the UN estimated that the battle to capture the de facto ISIS capital is costing the lives of 27 civilians a day. Its not just the almost ...

Press TV- Fresh air raids conducted by the US-led coalition have claimed the lives of eight civilians in Syrias northern city of Raqqah, a UK-based monitoring group says. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR)said on Wednesday that the death toll is expected to rise as some people had been critically wounded in the aerial assaults....

Alwaght- UN warned that half of the estimated 20,000 people living in Syrias ISIS-held city of Raqqa are children, as the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), predominantly Kurdish militias, supported by Washington-led coalitions' airstrikes battle for the northern city's central districts. Fran Equiza, an official with the UN childrens agency ...

SANA- Army units, in cooperation with thebackup forces, established full control over al-Sukhneh city, 70 km northeast of Palmyra in theeastern countryside of Homs province after launching intensive operations against ISISterrorist organizations. A military source told SANA Saturday that largenumbers of ISIS terrorists were killed and theirweapons ...

Press TV- Iran's top security official says US airstrikes on Syrias northern province of Raqqah using banned weapons amount to genocide in the war-stricken Arab country. Secretary of Irans Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani made the remarks in a meeting with Syrian Prime Minister Imad Khamis in Tehran on Sunday. Referring to ...

SANA The army has re-established control over several villages and towns in the course of its continued successful operations in the Syrian Badia, a military source announced on Wednesday. Those areas are Huweijet Shanan, al-Rahbi, al-Sabkheh, al-Jebli, al-Rabieh, al-Ziabiyeh, al-Mastaha, Shumra and Islam and al-Jaraie oil wells in the southern ...

Alwaght- Pushes to retake Syrias Raqqa are underway by the Syrian government forces on the one hand and the foreign-backed rebels on the other hand. Located in northeast Syria with 1,900 square kilometers of size, Raqqa was seized by ISIS terrorist group in winter 2013 and vast swaths of it have remained under its control to date. Geographically,...

SANA- The Army Air Force conducted on Saturday a number of airstrikes against dens and positions of the ISIS terrorists in the eastern countryside of Homs central province. A military source told SANA that the airstrikes targeted positions of the ISIS terrorists to the west of Um al-Rish village and in the village of Shandakhyiat Ghunaiman in the ...

SANA- The Syrian Air Force on Wednesday killed a number of ISIS terrorists and destroyed their vehicles in al-Shindakhiyeh al-Shamaliyeh and Um Tweineh in the eastern countryside ofHomsprovince, according to a military source. Raqqa The Syrian Air Force destroyed a number of ISIS positions and vehicles and killed scores of terrorists 12 km to ...

Sputnik News - From June 19, Russia is halting all interactions with the US within the framework on the memorandum of incident prevention in Syrian skies, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday following the US-led coalition's downing of a Syrian army's jet near Raqqa. Russian missile defense will intercept any aircraft inthe area ofoperations ...

Press TV - A so-called monitoring group says at least fourcivilians have lost their lives when the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Takfiri Daesh terrorist groupcarried out an aerial attack inSyria's militant-heldnorthern province of Raqqah. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that the airstrike targetedKhalid ...