It was here where the last ISIS fighters staged their final stand as the city they once styled as their capital was recaptured in October by an alliance of Syrian militias backed by U.S. The locker rooms were turned into cells, with cages where men were kept in solitary confinement. But when Islamic State militants took control of the city in 2014, the stadium became a prison. Generations of kids like Hassan remember playing on its fields. When Ahmed Hassan was a child, he played soccer in a stadium in the center of Raqqa, a Syrian city on the banks of the Euphrates River where he grew up. The flag of a U.S.-backed militia is raised in Naim Square, once the site of executions by ISIS.īy Jared Malsin | Photographs by Emanuele Satolli for TIME
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