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Jan-Niklas Kniewel

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Syria, 2017–18.

This SDF fighter was wounded by an ISIL sniper during the battle for Raqqa. A comrade was killed alongside him.

Raqqa during the liberation campaign.

SDF fighters discuss their next steps.

Driving into Raqqa during the campaign to eliminate ISIL.

A coalition airstrike targets Raqqa.

The SDF are trying to win over local Arab tribes, some of whom had previously declared their loyalty to ISIL.

The SDF are trying to win over local Arab tribes, some of whom had previously declared their loyalty to ISIL.

Displaced men in the Syrian desert.

The ruins of Raqqa after the liberation campaign. According to the UN, 80 per cent of the city is uninhabitable.

Inside a school in Raqqa after its liberation from ISIL.

Members of Raqqa's civil defence search for bodies in the rubble.

Four bodies recovered from a home destroyed by a coalition air strike.

Members of Raqqa’s city defense discover another body among the rubble.

A member of Raqqa's civil defence searching for bodies.

Raqqa’s city center.

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