General view of the city's works. A huge construction site since the end of the war in 2017, 80% of the city has been destroyed, and over 50% remains in ruins.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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View of bundles of Syrian pounds. Here, the equivalent of ten dollars. Constantly devalued by years of war and inflation, the currency is now worth almost nothing.
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Abbasid Wall, classified by UNESCO and dating from the 8th century. Currently being restored with a special budget allocated by the Raqqa Civil Council.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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Abbasid Wall, classified by UNESCO and dating from the 8th century. Currently being restored with a special budget allocated by the Raqqa Civil Council.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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The Armenian church, destroyed by Daech under the Caliphate, was rebuilt by the FBR (Free Burma Rangers) in 2021. The handful of Christians still in Raqqa are afraid to frequent it after years of war. In the church hangs a painting depicting the church destroyed by Daech.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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The Armenian church, destroyed by Daech under the Caliphate, was rebuilt by the FBR (Free Burma Rangers) in 2021. The handful of Christians still in Raqqa are afraid to frequent it after years of war. In the church hangs a painting depicting the church destroyed by Daech.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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General view of the Euphrates from Raqqa's main bridge.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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Under the bridge over the Euphrates, teenagers dive every day to have fun.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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Bank of the Euphrates. A driver parked his truck in the middle of the river to clean it.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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A fisherman's son rents his father's boat for a few minutes to visit the Euphrates. His father is ruined, and there are hardly any fish left in the river.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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A fisherman's son rents his father's boat for a few minutes to visit the Euphrates. His father is ruined, and there are hardly any fish left in the river.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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Locals come to take the water before selling it to the town's inhabitants.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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Mohamed, a farmer from Raqqa, has been pumping water from the Euphrates for as long as he can remember. He has many fields and crops. He explains that the level of the Euphrates is dropping and is worried: - if the water continues to fall like this, the whole country's agriculture will be affected! -.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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Mohamed, a farmer from Raqqa, has been pumping water from the Euphrates for as long as he can remember. He has many fields and crops. He explains that the level of the Euphrates is dropping and is worried: - if the water continues to fall like this, the whole country's agriculture will be affected! -.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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At the end of the day, the people of Raqqa come to cool off on the banks of the Euphrates. The abnormal temperatures are what drive them there. It was 48 degrees in early September.
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The New Bridge has been under construction since the end of 2022 - behind schedule, the site is suffering the financial penalties of the Caesar law wanted by the USA and the EU. Once completed, the bridge will enable trucks to circulate throughout the country.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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The New Bridge has been under construction since the end of 2022 - behind schedule, the site is suffering the financial penalties of the Caesar law wanted by the USA and the EU. Once completed, the bridge will enable trucks to circulate throughout the country.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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General view of the city. 80% destroyed by the war, only 50% rebuilt.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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General view of the city from a construction site. 80% destroyed by the war, only 50% rebuilt.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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General view of the city from a construction site. 80% destroyed by the war, only 50% rebuilt.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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General view of the city. 80% destroyed by the war, only 50% rebuilt.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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On the city's many reconstruction sites, over 3,000 young children are working in unsafe conditions. Generally deprived of schooling, they accompany their fathers.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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On the city's many reconstruction sites, over 3,000 young children are working in unsafe conditions. Generally deprived of school, they accompany their fathers. Rami, aged 10, prefers to learn the trade rather than waste time at school.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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On the city's many reconstruction sites, over 3,000 young children are working in unsafe conditions. Generally deprived of school, they accompany their fathers. Rami, aged 10, prefers to learn the trade rather than waste time at school.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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On the city's many reconstruction sites, over 3,000 young children are working in unsafe conditions. Generally deprived of school, they accompany their fathers. Rami, aged 10, prefers to learn the trade rather than waste time at school.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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On the city's many reconstruction sites, over 3,000 young children are working in unsafe conditions. Generally deprived of schooling, they accompany their fathers.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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On the city's many reconstruction sites, over 3,000 young children are working in unsafe conditions. Generally deprived of schooling, they accompany their fathers.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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General view of the city. 80% destroyed by the war, only 50% rebuilt.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
Chris Huby / Le Pictorium
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On the city's many reconstruction sites, over 3,000 young children are working in unsafe conditions. Generally deprived of schooling, they accompany their fathers.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
Chris Huby / Le Pictorium
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On the city's many reconstruction sites, over 3,000 young children are working in unsafe conditions. Generally deprived of schooling, they accompany their fathers.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
Chris Huby / Le Pictorium
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On the city's many reconstruction sites, over 3,000 young children are working in unsafe conditions. Generally deprived of schooling, they accompany their fathers.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
Chris Huby / Le Pictorium
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On the city's many reconstruction sites, over 3,000 young children are working in unsafe conditions. Generally deprived of schooling, they accompany their fathers.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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The OXYGEN SHABAB association has decided to reintegrate Syrian women, former wives of jihadists. When they leave the al-Hol camp, they are helped to find housing, work and food. Mouna, 30, married to a jihadist killed during the war, has three children. She has found work with the association and, according to her, has distanced herself from radical ideas.
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The OXYGEN SHABAB association has decided to reintegrate Syrian women, former wives of jihadists. When they leave the al-Hol camp, they are helped to find housing, work and food. Mouna, 30, married to a jihadist killed during the war, has three children. She has found work with the association and, according to her, has distanced herself from radical ideas.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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The OXYGEN SHABAB association has decided to reintegrate Syrian women, former wives of jihadists. When they leave the al-Hol camp, they are helped to find housing, work and food. Hayet, married to an American jihadist, has been struggling to live with her two daughters since her husband disappeared.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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The OXYGEN SHABAB association has decided to reintegrate Syrian women, former wives of jihadists. When they leave the al-Hol camp, they are helped to find housing, work and food. Here, some of the women helped have become seamstresses. Despite this, they are rejected by men and society and feel abandoned. -Under the Islamic State, at least, we were treated better- they point out.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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The OXYGEN SHABAB association has decided to reintegrate Syrian women, former wives of jihadists. When they leave the al-Hol camp, they are helped to find housing, work and food. Here, some of the women helped have become seamstresses. Despite this, they are rejected by men and society and feel abandoned. -Under the Islamic State, at least, we were treated better- they point out.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
Chris Huby / Le Pictorium
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The OXYGEN SHABAB association has decided to reintegrate Syrian women, former wives of jihadists. When they leave the al-Hol camp, they are helped to find housing, work and food. Here, some of the women helped have become seamstresses. Despite this, they are rejected by men and society and feel abandoned. -Under the Islamic State, at least, we were treated better- they point out.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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The OXYGEN SHABAB association has decided to reintegrate Syrian women, former wives of jihadists. When they leave the al-Hol camp, they are helped to find housing, work and food. Yasmine works in a cosmetics and beauty store. 32 years old, with two children and no husband, she thinks only of making money to survive. Rejected by society, she would like to hide and disappear. She finds the coalition government, Kurdish, dishonest. Under Daech, things were more obvious.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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The OXYGEN SHABAB association has decided to reintegrate Syrian women, former wives of jihadists. When they leave the al-Hol camp, they are helped to find housing, work and food. Yasmine works in a cosmetics and beauty store. 32 years old, with two children and no husband, she thinks only of making money to survive. Rejected by society, she would like to hide and disappear. She finds the coalition government, Kurdish, dishonest. Under Daech, things were more obvious.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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Massive demonstrations against Turkish bombing and high living costs. In late September and early October 2023, the Turks destroyed 80% of Rojava's energy infrastructure.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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Massive demonstrations against Turkish bombing and high living costs. In late September and early October 2023, the Turks destroyed 80% of Rojava's energy infrastructure.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
Chris Huby / Le Pictorium
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Massive demonstrations against Turkish bombing and high living costs. In late September and early October 2023, the Turks destroyed 80% of Rojava's energy infrastructure.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
Chris Huby / Le Pictorium
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Massive demonstrations against Turkish bombing and high living costs. In late September and early October 2023, the Turks destroyed 80% of Rojava's energy infrastructure.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
Chris Huby / Le Pictorium
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Massive demonstrations against Turkish bombing and high living costs. In late September and early October 2023, the Turks destroyed 80% of Rojava's energy infrastructure.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
Chris Huby / Le Pictorium
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Massive demonstrations against Turkish bombing and high living costs. In late September and early October 2023, the Turks destroyed 80% of Rojava's energy infrastructure.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
Chris Huby / Le Pictorium
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Massive demonstrations against Turkish bombing and high living costs. In late September and early October 2023, the Turks destroyed 80% of Rojava's energy infrastructure.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
Chris Huby / Le Pictorium
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Massive demonstrations against Turkish bombing and high living costs. In late September and early October 2023, the Turks destroyed 80% of Rojava's energy infrastructure.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
Chris Huby / Le Pictorium
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Massive demonstrations against Turkish bombing and high living costs. In late September and early October 2023, the Turks destroyed 80% of Rojava's energy infrastructure.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
Chris Huby / Le Pictorium
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Massive demonstrations against Turkish bombing and high living costs. In late September and early October 2023, the Turks destroyed 80% of Rojava's energy infrastructure.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
Chris Huby / Le Pictorium
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A displaced child overlooks the informal camp of Hattash. 1,000 families from Deir ez-Zor have been living there for over 3 years.
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Jarwa informal camp, home to over a thousand Syrian families displaced from Deir ez-Zor -
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Jarwa informal camp, home to over a thousand Syrian families displaced from Deir ez-Zor - Asma, in her thirties, lives in a tent with her two children and has been suffering from the food emergency since the summer of 2023.
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Jarwa informal camp, home to over a thousand Syrian families displaced from Deir ez-Zor - Asma, in her thirties, lives in a tent with her two children and has been suffering from the food emergency since the summer of 2023.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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Jarwa informal camp, home to over a thousand Syrian families displaced from Deir ez-Zor - Asma, in her thirties, lives in a tent with her two children and has been suffering from the food emergency since the summer of 2023.
Syria - The difficult reconstruction of Raqqa
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Hattash informal camp - overview of displaced people who have been living in the camp for 3 years.
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Hattash informal camp - A water truck fills up at the canal before chlorinating its contents and distributing it.