by Liz Sly | Dec 31, 2016 | Middle East
TAL SAMAN, Syria — “Raqqa we are coming” say the words spray-painted in Kurdish at the entrance to this empty little town, which lies on the front line of a U.S.-backed advance toward the ISIS capital. The city of Raqqa is 17 miles away, a tantalizingly short hop to...
by Liz Sly | Aug 13, 2016 | Middle East
Tuz Khurmatu-The front line south of this bleak and dusty town looks much as it did two years ago, when ISIS was the enemy and controlled a village less than a mile away. Now, however, the Kurdish peshmerga fighters holed up behind sandbags and barbed wire are peering...