Life Inside the ISIS Home Base of Raqqa, Syria
What's it like to live under the rule of the extremist group known as the Islamic State, or ISIS? WSJ looks at the situation in Raqqa, Syria, through the eyes of two activists — and through the lens of ISIS propaganda videos.
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We’re the Governorates of Syria
Located in Western Asia
Touching the Mediterranean Sea
The Governorates of Syria
Surrounded by Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Cypress, and Turkey
I’m the Aleppo Governorate
محافظة حلب
Aleppo is my capital
Now don’t you forget
Raqqa Governorate
مُحافظة الرقة
I have a capital named Raqqa
Nice to meet ya
I’m As-Suwayda Governorate you see
السويداء
As-Suwayda is my capital within me
I’m the Governorate of Damascus How are you
مُحافظة دمشق
Damascus is the name of the countries capital this is true
Daraa Governorate That’s who I am
مُحافظة درعا
Daraa is my capital understand
Deir Ez-Zor Governorate
مُحافظة دير الزور
Deir Ez-Zor is also the name of my capital Now here’s some more
I am a Governorate of Syria I am Hama
مُحافظة حماة
Hama is my capital it is what you just saw
We’re the Governorates of Syria
Located in Western Asia
Touching the Mediterranean Sea
The Governorates of Syria
Surrounded by Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Cypress, and Turkey
I’m Al-Hasakah located in the Northeast
محافظة الحسكة
Al-Hasakah is the capital within me
I’m Homs The largest Governorate in Syria
مُحافظة حمص
Homs is my capital I will be seeing ya
Idlib Governorate
مُحافظة ادلب
My capitals named Idlib
It’s this star on me
My name is Latakia touching the Mediterranean Sea
مُحافظة اللاذقية
Latakia is the capitals name within me
Quneitra Governorate is my name you can see
مُحافظة القنيطرة
This is my star and my capital Quneitra
the abandoned town in me
Rif Dimashq Governorate is right here
محافظة ريف دمشق
Douma is my capital that had just appeared
I’m the Governorate Tartus
On the Mediterranean Sea
مُحافظة طرطوس
Tartus is the capital name that is within me
I am Syria a country in Western Asia
سوريا
Damascus is my capital Peace to all of ya
We’re the Governorates of Syria
Located in Western Asia
Touching the Mediterranean Sea
The Governorates of Syria
Surrounded by Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Cypress, and Turkey
Inside ISIS Raqqa
When the bombs rained down on Raqqa in eastern Syria early on Tuesday, many families were already huddled in their homes awaiting the inevitable.
The first strikes landed just after 2am, directed at sites that Islamic State (Isis) has openly used and that had long been flagged as targets. The jihadis were no longer there though, having blended in with Raqqa’s civilian population, where they knew they would be safer.
By daybreak, the governorate building, an Isis command post for the past 15 months, a TV station and a Syrian military base had been destroyed. According to several residents who spoke to the Guardian, up to 30 people were killed. Most, if not all, were militants.
The rest of the city remained hunkered down until the roaring jets and whining drones above had long gone.
“At first, I thought it was an air strike by Assad,” said local resident Mohammed Sheiko. “But it was different this time. It lasted for 30 minutes and the sound of bombing was louder than usual. I saw smoke coming out of the governorate building and from the al-Rasheed gardens.
“I called a couple of my friends and they didn’t know about any civilians killed, but they heard some Isis fighters were killed, around 30 to 35 fighters. I don’t fear the air strikes. I hope they will bring us some good and not attack civilians.”
Hiba, 20, a student, said: “I heard the sound of the bombing, like everyone in Raqqa. I can already see the success of these strikes. Isis fighters have already started leaving the city, following their families, who they evacuated a while ago.
“There are no words to describe the bombing. It was a scene I wouldn’t wish my worst enemy to face. I was on the balcony with my little sister and we could hear the sound of planes and I was joking with her and said: ‘Comb your hair and smile, you are being filmed.’
“Later the bombing started and we all ran to the living room, everyone screaming and running in different directions. We didn’t know what to do. Our neighbour went to the hospital and asked if they needed blood and they said no because they haven’t got any injuries. Most people who left their homes live near Isis headquarters. We won’t leave our home. There is no point. We believe in destiny.”
Reem, 20, a university student, sheltered at home with her four younger sisters and parents. “My mum doesn’t want us to leave. She says we will stay home like the rest of the people in the city,” she said. “We have nowhere else to go. My little sisters kept crying when they heard the bombing. They are still panicking. There are very few shelters in the city and all we can do is hide on the ground floor of our home and gather together in one room.
“I don’t know of any civilians being killed. Isis is quiet now and they haven’t made any speeches yet. Today, it is rather quiet but the market is now open again and I see people in the streets.
“I believe the air strikes will bring some good results. Even if they manage to damage Isis a little bit, I am for them. We are fed up with Isis and the air strikes are much better than the Assad attacks on Raqqa. Assad doesn’t attack Isis, he attacks us. We want to get rid of Isis even if that means we will lose some of our people. This is the price we have to pay to have our freedom back.”
Another local resident, Yasir, 25, said: “I’ve heard that 30 Isis fighters were killed. We in Raqqa are split in our opinions about the air strikes. Many of us were upset as we heard today that Idlib was attacked and some headquarters of Jabhat al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham were hit. We feel that the air strikes aren’t against Isis, but against other groups. In the beginning, I was excited. But now I fear these attacks and the motivations behind them.”
Ahmed Sayel, 40, said: “I contacted a friend of mine who is an Isis fighter and he assured me it was a US air strike. He said some fighters are now martyrs, but I don’t know the number … I am not with these attacks as I know that it will only lead to the deaths of the Sunnis. I am pretty sure it won’t affect the Assad regime.”
War on ISIS: France's largest warship to battle against ISIS in Syria and Iraq - TomoNews
TOULON, FRANCE — France is set to deploy its largest warship to aid in the US-led coalition against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the French president's office said in a statement issued on Thursday after a defense cabinet meeting.
France will deploy the Charles de Gaulle, a 860-foot-long French carrier that can carry up to 40 aircraft and support 100 flights a day. The carrier is usually accompanied by an attack submarine, several frigates, refuelling ships, as well as fighter jets and surveillance aircraft, reported Reuters. The warship has two aircraft strips for taking-off in the front and one for landing in the back, according to Business Insider. The ship will reportedly reduce the time it takes for French jets to carry out airstrikes, reported BBC.
The French is currently using six Mirage jets stationed in Jordan and six Rafale jets in the United Arab Emirates to carry out airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq. France has carried out 271 airstrikes in 1,285 aerial missions in Iraq and two known airstrikes in Syria since September 2014, according to Agence France-Presse.
The warship, the only one of its kind in France's fleet, is usually joined with attack submarine, frigates ships, refueling ships, fighter jets and surveillance aircraft, Reuters reported. It is also the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier outside the United States. This is the second time the ship will be deployed against ISIS, the ship was previously stationed in the Persian Gulf and used as a base for French jets from February to April, BBC reported.
The French have declared the airstrikes as self defense after an IS militant killed 17 people in Paris in the beginning of the year.
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Iraq War Analysis: ISIS Terrorists Too Brutal Even For Al Qaeda - Bengal Newz
Analysis: The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is so hardline that it was disavowed by al-Qaida's leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Led by an Iraqi called Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS was originally an al-Qaida group in Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). As the Syrian civil war intensified, its involvement in the conflict was indirect at first. Abu Muhammad al-Joulani, an ISI member, established Jabhat al-Jabhat al-Nusra in mid-2011, which became the main jihadi group in the Syrian war. Joulani received support and funding from ISI and Baghdadi.
But Baghdadi sought to gain influence over the increasingly powerful Jabhat al-Nusra by directly expanding ISI's operations into Syria, forming Isis in April last year. Differences over ideology and strategy soon led to bitter infighting. Isis turned to out to be too extreme and brutal not just for Jabhat al-Nusra, but for al-Qaida itself, leading to a public repudiation by Zawahiri, who last month called on Isis to leave Syria and return to Iraq.
By then Isis had lost ground in Syria to Jabhat al-Nusra and its allies. But any notion that ISIS is a spent force has been shattered by its capture of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. Isis now controls territory that stretches from the eastern edge of Aleppo, Syria, to Falluja in western Iraq and now the northern city of Mosul.
ISIS has shown its ruthlessness and brutality in the areas of Syria under its control, eastern Aleppo and the city of Raqqa. It was blamed for the February killing of a founding member of the Salafi group Ahrar al-Sham and the group's leader in Aleppo, Muhammad Bahaiah, who had close connections with senior al-Qaida leaders. It was also blamed for the assassination of Jabhat al-Nusra's leader in the Idlib governorate, Abu Muahmmad al-Ansari, along with his wife, children and relatives. It ordered the crucifixion of a man accused of murder; other forms of punishment include beheadings and amputations.
Despite its brutal reputation, Isis has shown flexibility as well in Iraq to win over disaffected Sunnis in the north against the Shia-led government of Nouri al-Maliki. Mushreq Abbas, who writes on Iraq for the Al-Monitor website, describes how Baghdadi has presented himself as an alternative to the Sunni political class tribal leaders and moderate clerics who oppose central government.
Until now, Baghdadi's fighters have not harmed religious men … when the tribes refused to raise Isis banners in Falluja, he ordered his fighters not to raise the banner and try to co-opt the fighters of armed groups, clans or religious men, says Abbas.
Unlike the Iraqi troops facing them Isis fighters are highly motivated, battle hardened and well-equipped, analysts say.
It also runs the equivalent of a state. It has all the trappings of a state, just not an internationally recognised one, Douglas Ollivant of the New America Foundation, told the Washington Post.
It runs courts, schools and services, flying its black-and-white flag over every facility it controls. In Raqqa, it even started a consumer protection authority for food standards.
ISIS has bolstered its strength by recruiting thousands of foreign volunteers in Syria, some from Europe and the US, and is estimated to have more than 10,000 men under its control. As for resources, it counts large extortion networks in Mosul that predates the US withdrawal and in February it seized control of the financially valuable Conoco gas field, said to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a week, from Jabhat al-Nusra in Deir Ezzor, in Syria.
Now that it has captured Mosul, Isis is in an even stronger position to bolster its claim that it is the leading jihadi group.
ISIS now presents itself as an ideologically superior alternative to al-Qaida within the jihadi community and it has publicly challenged the legitimacy of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, said Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, Doha, in a paper last month. As such it has increasingly become a transnational movement with immediate objectives far beyond Iraq and Syria. (Video Courtesy: Al-Jazeera)
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The Destruction of Syria ¦ How the Assad clan and US henchmen tore down an entire nation
It is common to see a picture of a Syrian army soldier flashing a victory sign after some recent success in battle, while in the background most buildings in the town lie in ruins, and the former residents of the area are living elsewhere in refugee camps. More than (400,000) Syrians have been killed in the four-year war, at least one million have been wounded, and an estimated twelve million Syrians which is half of Syrias population are refugees. An entire generation of Syrian children are growing up without an education in a landscape laid to waste. In this sense Syria has become hell on Earth. How did this happen?
Be it the Ottomans, the British, the French or exclusive Syrian clans every single one of them has eventually brought nothing but misery to Syria.
The Syrian people were victims of a constant power struggle between different occupiers and tyrants that would benefit the Syrians only as long as it kept them in power and that would sacrifice anything - the country, its people, their dignity - to stay in charge of the country.
At the end of the day the reasons are always the same: money, geopolitics, thirst for power and control.
And this is why today Syria lies in ruins.
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SAA Captures Jazal Oil Field from Islamic State
SAA forces took full control of the Jazal oil field in Homs Governorate on 3/7/15 after three days of fighting. The Islamic State (IS) had held the oil field since October 2014, when IS forces seized several oil fields in the area.
The Jazal oil field was previously owned by INA, a Croatian-based company that exited Syria in 2012 after EU sanctions were imposed. Since then, the fields had been managed by the Syrian state-owned Hayyan Petroleum Company. The company told SANA that it is working to repair the three wells, saying that damage to well 2 was also prohibiting use of wells 1 and 3.
The field has a daily pumping capacity of approximately 3,000 barrels per day.
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ISIS ambush in Kirkuk
ISIS is launching a series of counter-attacks in Northern Iraq, including an ambush on security buildings in Kirkuk, in an attempt to divert coalition resources from Mosul. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
Airstrikes on rebel-held Syria creates new crisis for a quarter million people
More than 270,000 Syrians have fled for their lives in the last few weeks. For them, walking for hours to a desolate corner of the desert and waiting for help that is not arriving is still safer than staying at home. Massive airstrikes by Russian jets and a trail of destruction left by Syrian and Iranian-backed troops have turned the once rebel-held Dara'a into a ghost town. Nick Schifrin reports.
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