The daylight slowly fades from Raqqa. In a few hours, the city will be placed under curfew. (Credit: Laurent Perpigna Iban/L'Orient Today)
Most of Raqqa has been raised to the ground by wave after wave of violence. First, the Assad family's iron grip, then the 2013 clashes between opposition groups and what would become, a few months later, the Islamic State (IS), then this group's three-year siege of the city, which was brought to an end by Arab-Kurdish forces and international coalition bombings.The city, which sits on the banks of the Euphrates River in northern Syria, has since regained some sense of vitality. It's the largest in the autonomous region governed by the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES), also known as Rojava, and has been the focus of many investment and rebuilding efforts.Raqqa's residents make do with this Kurdish governance. "As it stands, there was nothing better, since it was either the regime...
Most of Raqqa has been raised to the ground by wave after wave of violence. First, the Assad family's iron grip, then the 2013 clashes between opposition groups and what would become, a few months later, the Islamic State (IS), then this group's three-year siege of the city, which was brought to an end by Arab-Kurdish forces and international coalition bombings.The city, which sits on the banks of the Euphrates River in northern Syria, has since regained some sense of vitality. It's the largest in the autonomous region governed by the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES), also known as Rojava, and has been the focus of many investment and rebuilding efforts.Raqqa's residents make do with this Kurdish governance. "As it stands, there was nothing better, since it was either the regime...
