TEHRAN, Jul 3 -Syrian officials have discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of tens of people executed by members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group near the country’s northwestern city of Raqqah.
TEHRAN, MARCH 1-The Russian defense chief has called on the UN to set up an international commission to assess the humanitarian situation in the northern Syrian city of Raqqah, which is controlled by US-backed Kurdish militants.
TEHRAN, October 22 - Russia says the US has wiped the Syrian city of Raqqah "off the face of the earth" with carpet bombing in the same way the United States and Britain bombed Germany's Dresden in 1945.
TEHRAN, October 21 - A US-backed grouping of militants that calls itself the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) says the Syrian city of Raqqah, where Daesh terrorists have recently left, will be part of a system of “federal government” in the country’s north.
TEHRAN, August 31 - A United Nations (UN) official has expressed concern about the situation of the thousands of civilians in the Syrian city of Raqqah, which is held by the Daesh terrorist group and is the target of military offensives by a multitude of forces.
TEHRAN, August 6, YJC - Iran's top security official said US airstrikes on Syria’s northern province of Raqqah using banned weapons amount to genocide in the war-stricken Arab country.
TEHRAN, June 28, YJC - The United Nations human rights chief said as many as 100,000 civilians are trapped in Syria's Raqqah province, urging all sides fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, "including international forces", to spare their lives.
TEHRAN, June 15, YJC - A UN commission has warned that the intensified offensive by US-led forces on the Syrian city of Raqqah has led to about 300 civilian deaths and displacement of 160,000 others.
A foreign-backed Syrian opposition figure says members of his militant group are training with US troops in preparation for a joint operation to recapture Daesh-held Raqqah.