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First civilians return to Raqqa after mines cleared: US-backed force

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First civilians return to Raqqa after mines cleared: US-backed force
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Hundreds of civilians have returned to a battered district of Syria’s Raqqa in what a US-backed force said was the first wave of returns since it cleared explosives left by terrorists.
Daesh lost control of Raqqa — once its primary Syrian bastion — on Oct. 17 after a months-long battle with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Tens of thousands of people fled the city during the offensive, reducing Raqqa to a ghost town of collapsed buildings.
The SDF said in an online statement on Sunday that hundreds of families had returned to Al-Meshleb, Raqqa’s easternmost district.
“The SDF informed civilians from Al-Meshleb that they could return to their homes after mine-removal teams had finished clearing the entire neighborhood of explosives left indiscriminately in civilian homes by Daesh,” the force’s press center said.
It said the district was the first to which residents had returned since the city’s “liberation from Daesh,” an Arabic acronym for IS.
After capturing Raqqa, the SDF sealed off the city to allow for mine removal operations in bombed-out neighborhoods.
Residents often amassed at checkpoints in recent weeks, waiting for permission to access the city and see if their homes were still standing. Some civilians who sneaked in were killed by unexploded ordnance.
Mine-clearing and reconstruction operations in Raqqa are being coordinated by the Raqqa Civil Council (RCC), a provisional local government body appointed by the SDF but based outside the city.
“Yes, residents of Al-Meshleb returned to their homes — but the whole city hasn’t been cleared of mines yet,” senior council member Omar Alloush told AFP on Monday.
The deputy head of the council’s reconstruction committee, Nazmi Mohammad, said the body had dispatched 10 bulldozers to Raqqa to help clear rubble and blocked-off roads in Al-Meshleb.
After capturing Raqqa in 2014, Daesh used the city as a hub for the administration of its self-styled “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria.
Daesh used the city as a planning and operations center for its warfare in the Middle East and its string of attacks overseas, and for a time imprisoned Western hostages there before killing them in slickly produced films distributed online.
Fighting between US-backed militias and Daesh in its former stronghold has peppered mosques and minarets with machine-gun fire while airstrikes flattened houses. No building is untouched.
“The old clock tower could be heard from outside the walls once. It’s damaged now. It’s silent,” Mohammed Hawi, an Arab fighter from Raqqa, said at a nearby home occupied by the SDF.
“Infrastructure is completely destroyed, water, electricity networks, bridges. There’s not a single service functioning,” said Ibrahim Hassan, who oversees reconstruction for the RCC at its headquarters in nearby Ain Issa.
“We gave our city as a sacrifice for the sake of defeating terrorism. It’s the world’s duty to help us,” he said.
A major bridge leading into eastern Raqqa lies collapsed after a coalition air strike. Beyond it, damaged water towers and the skeletons of teetering residential blocks dot the skyline.
The RCC has said they told the coalition it would take 5.3 billion Syrian liras (about $10 million) a year to restore power and water supplies, roads and schools. It is feared delays could reignite unrest.
Following months of losses in the face of multiple offensives, touted Daesh fighters are now defending their last redoubts further down the Euphrates Valley.
More than 330,000 people have been killed since Syria’s conflict erupted in March 2011 with anti-regime protests that were brutally suppressed.

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