Examples of using Raqa in English and their translations into Indonesian
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US-led 2017 blitz on Syria's Raqa killed 1,600 civilians: report.
Raqa was one of the most emblematic IS bastions, at the heart of both its military operations and its propaganda.
Across the border, IS's de-facto Syrian capital Raqa was also coming under increasing pressure.
Raqa, which serves as a conduit for all gas and oil supplies from Deir Ezzor, would be the natural capital.
The jihadist group dominates the provinces of Deir Ezzor and Raqa and has a strong presence in Hasakeh, Aleppo, Homs, and Hama.
The fall of Raqa marks a major defeat for ISIS, which has seen its territories steadily shrink since last year.
(We) work with the leadership we have identified within theSDF to try develop a plan" to retake Raqa, he said.
IS had set up a few new checkpoints in Raqa city and was“amassing its forces on the front lines” further north, he said.
On the Euphrates' western bank,ISIS still controls swathes of territory stretching from Raqa to Jarablus, on the border with Turkey.
ISIS took over Raqa, located on the Euphrates River, in January 2014, and transformed it into the epicenter of its brutal rule.
The US-led military coalition that has been carrying out air strikes against IS in Iraq andSyria has also targeted the jihadist group in Raqa.
The Observatory said clashes and air strikes in Raqa had killed 311 IS jihadists and 106 SDF militiamen since June 6.
An activist in Raqa said the battle for villages around Tal Abyad had already begun, forcing people to flee across the border into Turkey.
Tens of thousands of civilians are believed to be trapped inside Raqa, with warnings that the jihadists are using them as human shields.
ISIS forces captured Palmyra from the regime after an advance intocentral Homs province from their strongholds in neighbouring Raqa and Deir Ezzor provinces.
Significant progress in Raqa last 24 hours, with key territory seized by SDF forces& 100s of civilians freed," Brett McGurk wrote.
The SDF, partnered with enabling support from US and coalition forces,are the only force on the ground that can successfully seize Raqa in the near future.”.
Dozens of families have fled the town and headed to Raqa, Deir Ezzor and other areas under ISIS control in the Syrian desert," he added.
Coalition members and local forces should demonstrate concretely that the lives andrights of the hundreds of thousands of civilians in Raqa are a parallel priority in the offensive.".
The group also carried out three executions in the Raqa provincial town of Tal Abyad, on the Turkish border, and two more in the town of Saluq, the Observatory said.
Raqa is the only provincial capital to have fallen out of regime hands since the conflict erupted when regime opponents took up arms following a bloody crackdown by Assad's forces on democracy protests in March 2011.
And to read into it the idea that it refers to a solid metallic substance that holds the rain water up there in the sky,there's no suggestion of an idea of that in the word: raqa, to stretch out, to spread out- rāqia.
ISIS was kicked out of its former bastion Raqa in October by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which then stood up police units to hold the city.
In mid-2017, Raqa had been the de facto Syria capital of the Islamic State group's cross-border“caliphate” for three years and the US-led coalition launched a military campaign to crush the jihadists in their main remaining hub.
A drone strike near the Islamic State group's(IS)de facto Syrian capital Raqa killed a militant commander heading to Aleppo province on orders from the organisation's chief, a monitoring group said Thursday.
The Kurdish-led SDF overran Raqa in 2017, after years of what residents described as ISIS's brutal rule, which included public beheading and crucifixions.
Losing control of the heavily populated Iraqi city of Mosul,and oil rich areas in the Syrian provinces of Raqa and Homs, has had a particularly significant impact on the group's ability to generate revenue," said senior analyst Ludovico Carlino.
Since capturing it in 2014, ISIS had used Raqa as a base for planning and conducting attacks in the west, including the November 13, 2015 suicide bombings and mass shootings in Paris that killed 130 people.
Since capturing it in 2014, ISIS had used Raqa as a base for planning and conducting attacks in the west, including the November 13, 2015 suicide bombings and mass shootings in Paris that killed 130 people.
