"Welcome to Raqqa": Watch Gabriel Gatehouse's full report ... At the start of June, the coalition said its 21,035 air strikes in Syria and Iraq since 2014 had unintentionally killed at least ...

The SDF, supported by US-led coalition air strikes, has spent months encircling the city. IS seized Raqqa in 2014, proclaiming it the capital of a "caliphate". The city has been an important hub ...

An SDF offensive towards Raqqa this summer backed by US air strikes and military advisers was soon abandoned in favour of crossing the Euphrates river and besieging Isis-held Manbij — enraging Ankara, ...

The US-led coalition has provided ongoing air support ... efforts to attack Raqqa appear to have bogged down, with Kurdish militias making little progress and US-led strikes in the province ...