”SDF-held Raqqa city is tense, its nights under curfew punctuated by gunfire and arrests. Residents feel cut off from the rest of Syria, fearing the possibility of partition and a return of IS.”

Walid Al Nofal & Abdulmajid Ismail for @syriadirect.bsky.social: https://syriadirect.org/a-city-apart-raqqa-residents-fear-separatism-and-the-is-card/