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The group chat catching fleeing ISIS fighters | Popular Front

January 19, 2019January 22, 2019 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

I was a guest on Jake Hanrahan’s podcast Popular Front last week to discuss low-tech ways that non-government forces are catching Islamic State group fighters on the run from their collapsed ‘caliphate’ in Syria and Iraq. Listen to the episode here:

 

Four years and one caliphate later, IS claims Idlib comeback | AFP

January 16, 2018January 17, 2018 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here January 16, 2018]

The Islamic State group has been roundly defeated across much of Syria — which made it all the more surprising when it announced an official comeback in the country’s northwest last week.

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In ravaged Raqa, clues to IS’s bygone media empire | AFP

October 21, 2017October 23, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on October 22, 2017]

“Special operations by the Caliphate’s soldiers!” boasts a torn, blood-stained pamphlet at a bombed-out media kiosk in Syria’s Raqa, a symbol of the Islamic State group’s once fearsome propaganda machine. Continue reading →

After IS, rotting corpses and empty jail cells in Syria’s Raqa | AFP

October 17, 2017October 23, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here October 18, 2017]

Raqa (Syria) (AFP) – Days ago in Syria’s Raqa, die-hard jihadists made their final stand in the city’s national hospital. On Wednesday, it stood eerily silent, its entrance inhabited only by swarming flies and two rotting corpses.

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To beat jihadists, anti-IS Syria force goes back to basics | AFP

October 15, 2017October 23, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here October 16, 2017]

Raqa (Syria) (AFP) – Once the last Islamic State group fighters are ousted from Syria’s Raqa, the unconventional forces battling the jihadists say they’ll have batteries and masking tape to thank for their victory.

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Far from front line, volunteers prepare to rebuild Raqa | AFP

October 12, 2017October 23, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here on October 13, 2017]

Ain Issa (Syria) (AFP) – As US-backed forces fight to oust the Islamic State group from its last hideouts in Syria’s Raqa, a city council-in-exile is already working to bring life back to its devastated home town.

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Civilians pour out of Syria’s Raqa as bombing intensifies | AFP

October 11, 2017October 23, 2017 / Maya Gebeily / Leave a comment

[Published here October 12, 2017]

Dozens of desperate civilians streamed out of battlefront districts of Syria’s Raqa on Thursday after a ferocious resumption in bombardment against Islamic State group holdouts in the city.

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"The town of #Baghouz thanks you for your visit." Today, from the eastern #Syria hamlet where IS is making its last stand. The US-backed forces fighting to take Baghouz have cornered a group of diehard jihadists in a half-square-kilometre, but an unknown number of civilians - including Syrian & foreign hostages - are thought to be holed up with them. A sputtering end to IS's once-infamous "caliphate," in a town anonymous even to most Syrians until just a few weeks ago.
Escape from Al-Hol. #latergram because authorities have restricted journalists' access to displaced families here. There are more than 35,000 people - most Iraqi and Syrian but also thousands of foreigners - living in tents in this sprawling settlement in northeast #Syria. These kids were playing a very lively game of football on a cloudy afternoon - only the lucky ones had closed-toed shoes on. #Iraq #refugees #camp #joy
A 34-year-old Crimean woman tears a piece of bread to feed her eldest of three children, Sara, after their hours-long trek on foot out of Baghuz, the tiny desert town in east #Syria where IS's infamous 'caliphate' is breathing its last. I haven't found a single person actually from this once-anonymous town. Instead, we've seen French, Russian, Iraqi, Turkish men, women, and children - skeletal, on the verge of collapse, covered in soot. Many of them were born under IS to fathers who are now dead or missing & foreign mothers whose countries don't want them back. More, in the link in my bio. #onassignment
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