Raqqa: A timeline of control

The city of Raqqa, which government-allied forces have entered today, has changed hands on several occasions throughout Syria’s civil war. Omer Ozkizilcik, a nonresident senior fellow for the Syria Project at the Atlantic Council, told Al Jazeera the possible loss of Raqqa will mean “the SDF is on the edge of losing territorial connectivity between the two Kurdish-majority areas of northeastern Syria”. The SDF has a difficult choice, he added. “Either they will agree on all terms of Damascus and try to secure what they can, or the SDF will try to bolster its position in Kurdish-majority areas,” he said.