Syria - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Alex and Valbona Myteberi

...who was rescued after an airstrike in Aleppo , Syria. Alex's written words were ...
...you said. “Show me Syria. Show me Aleppo .” I wanted to know where this was...
...concerned. After you showed me where Aleppo was, I remember at night jus...

Brett McGurk

...with in Syria to ultimately take down Raqqa in these areas that ISIS was reall...
...battles since World War II. Battle of Raqqa , the same. And we were able to do tha...
...the caliphate, including the Battle of Raqqa . It's basically what we had drawn u...
...office, we were talking about how to do Raqqa . And there was a question—to take th...
...was a question—to take the city of Raqqa from ISIS, we had to more directly ar...

Ben Rhodes

...war for some time in eastern Syria, in Raqqa . Obviously they were on our rada...

John Kerry

...left, but there was enough still around Raqqa [Syria] and parts of Syria, et cetera...

Rick Jordan

...And so, as it would come to the port of Latakia , those two ships would go in and ge...