Burning Raqqa: The US War Against Civilians in Syria
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By Laura Gottesdiener, TomDispatch
Villagers walk to collect water after troops from the Syrian Democratic Forces, a coalition of Kurdish and Arab forces, retook a town on November 11, 2015, near Hasaka, in the autonomous region of Rojava, Syria. (Photo: John Moore / Getty Images)
It was midday on Sunday, May 7th, when the US-led coalition warplanes again began bombing the neighborhood of Wassim Abdo's family.
They lived in Tabqa, a small city on the banks of the Euphrates River in northern Syria. Then occupied by the Islamic State (ISIS, also known as Daesh), Tabqa was also under siege by US-backed troops and being hit by daily artillery fire from US Marines, as well as US-led coalition airstrikes. The city, the second largest in Raqqa Province, was home to an...