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It was announced earlier this month, after a four-month operation, that Raqqa is no longer under the control of ISIS. Raqqa is Syrian city has been plagued by war and death under the Islamic fundamentalist group since 2014. ISIS, also known as ISIL, has been losing some of their major territories in the recent months. A liberation group, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), is a union made up of both Kurdish and Arab forces backed by the United States has been fighting for the liberation of states that ISIS have taken over. The fight for total liberation from ISIS is a long way from being over, but SDF forces continuing fighting for the cause. Even though Raqqa is now liberated, there will be a shadow over the city for the many years to come. …show more content…

In this year alone, more than 2,700 have been killed. On October 8th, Iraq Body Count recorded that the total number of civilian deaths is 66,345. This number goes back towards the beginning of the conflict in 2014. These are just rough estimates of the death toll. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that in 2017 that the total number of deaths was more than 475,000 people; out of that number, 99,600 were civilians. Which calculates to roughly ¼ of the deaths were those of innocent people. This does not include the civilians that are still missing or not accounted for. The city of Raqqa has been left in devastation after the long battle that it had to endure during the blood-soaked conflict. ISIL left behind many mines and tunnels that housed sleeper cells and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Along with the destruction that ISIL caused, the city has been nearly destructed by air strikes that left buildings in ruins. Even though, air strikes have been opposed by many nations and their leaders, they were almost necessary to aid the end of the conflict. Going back to the US being a hegemonic power, many other nations do not have the power or the ‘take action’ attitude. Even though many of the air-strikes were carry out by the US, the US was not the only nation that helped with the liberation of Syrian and Iranian cities. Other nations that got involved in the conflict were Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Jordan, the Netherlands,

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