Residents of the city of Raqqa in northern Syria endured three years of hell between 2014 and 2017, when the so-called Islamic State, known as ISIS, captured their city and declared it as the capital of its caliphate. In the years since it was liberated, Raqqa has tried to rebuild. But as The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports, healing has been painfully slow.
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