Through the rubbish-strewn streets, past the scorched wrecks of cars, into a courtyard peppered with empty plastic water bottles, and suddenly you are inside their dark squalid room. About 30 African migrant hopefuls, sat crushed knee-to-knee, (...)
Senior International Correspondent
NEAR RAQA — It is staggering to be so close to Daesh's self-declared capital, Raqa, that you can hear it. Distant, low thuds on the horizon.
Kurdish YPG fighters are just 30km from Raqa. One of them, Bahoz, told me (...)
