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Daesh-held Raqqah worst place in Syria, United Nations says. Really.
That tears it! I'm cancelling my Labor Day getaway to Raqqa![Iran Press TV] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... has expressed serious concerns over the humanitarian condition in Syria’s northern city of Raqqah, describing the territory still controlled by the ISIS Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group as "the worst place" in the conflict-plagued Arab country. "The worst place probably today in Syria is the part of Raqqah that is still held by ISIS," Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian adviser for Syria, told news hounds in Geneva on Thursday. The city of Raqqah, which lies on the northern bank of the Euphrates River, was overrun by ISIS It is estimated that some 300,000 civilians are trapped inside Raqqah, including 80,000 displaced from other parts of Syria. Thousands have fled in recent months, and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs believes about 160,000 people remain in the city. On June 6, the US-backed murderous Moslems from the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they had launched an operation aimed at pushing ISIS out of Raqqah. "They (civilians) are encircled by the SDF fighters and they are used seemingly as human shields by ISIS," Egeland said, noting that "constant air raids" by the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the ISIS Takfiri terrorist group also threaten their lives. Posted by: Fred 2017-08-18 |
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