Destroyed buildings (Ar-Raqqah)
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ar-Raqqah /
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, 3 km from center (الرقة)
ruins, destroyed, target (military)
These four apartment buildings were destroyed by the Russian Air Force on May 28, 2017. Russia suspected they were being commandeered by ISIS for use as a command post, as they had determined ISIS leaders were meeting there to prepare for the upcoming battle for Raqqa. Russia's Defense Ministry later said that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi "could" have been killed. There was a great controversy over whether or not he had been killed, if he had died earlier, or if he was still alive. It was later determined that he did not die in the strike, and may not have been present at all.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 35°56'59"N 38°59'57"E
- Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi 96 km
- Tabarah as-Sakhana 131 km
- Khirbat Umm al Mikbas 154 km
- Fortification Wall 156 km
- Andarin / Androna 156 km
- Docletian City-Wall 169 km
- Ancient city of Palmyra 169 km
- Alsskkari ruins 187 km
- Dayr Simeon 200 km
- Sarjableh 209 km
- Al-Tashih 0.4 km
- al-Amin 0.7 km
- ٌُERT 0.7 km
- Al-Furat 1.2 km
- Hurriyah 1.4 km
- al-Baryd 1.8 km
- Hattin 2.1 km
- Yarmouk 2.1 km
- Raqqa trenches 2.3 km
- Al-Raqqah Governorate 11 km