Photo Gallery Raqqa in Ruins
Raqqa was once an IS stronghold. Now it is liberated. Yet the city is largely inhabitable, covered in mines and strewn with rotting corpses. One lawyer has made it his mission to change that.
The view from a destroyed clock tower in Raqqa: More than 8,000 mines and explosive remain hidden in the city.
Lawyer Abdullah al-Arian in the offices of the Raqqa Civil Council.
Young fighters with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
A body beneath the rubble. There are thousands of unburied corpses across the destroyed city.
Residents of the district of al-Mashlab, the only part of the city where life has returned to normal.
Arian in a former IS clinic in Raqqa, says the city needs outside help. "We fought for the world."
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