What Documents and Records Did ISIS Leave Behind in Raqqa, Syria?

The following teaser is from an article posted July 18, 2018 at the english alarabiya.net website.

What did documents, records left behind by ISIS in Raqqa reveal? Al Arabiya English’s correspondent was able to recover several documents belonging to ISIS in Raqqa.

The operation to free the town of Raqqa, codenamed Operation Wrath of Euphrates, started in the summer of 2016 and proceeded until the liberation and restoration of the city in October 2017.

From bombed cars and houses to corpses scattered under the rubble as a result of the destruction witnessed by the city revealing the viciousness of the fighting, the battles and the dire price paid by the city’s inhabitants to recover their city of Raqqa…

Amid all of this lay papers with the stamp of the so-called “Islamic State”, scattered all over the organization’s strongholds, marking the end of the story the world has witnessed which was previously narrated through ISIS’ publications documenting the organization’s crimes and further revealing aspects in relation to the fall of ISIS and its rule over the region and its inhabitants.

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About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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