A boy searches for belongings amid rubble of damaged buildings in Raqqa, Syria October 12, 2018. REUTERS/Aboud Hamam
BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S.-led air strikes destroyed much of Syria's Raqqa while crushing Islamic State last year, but the coalition has done little to help it recover, rights group Amnesty International said on Friday.
Nearly a year after the battle, 80 percent of the city is in ruins and thousands of bodies lie in the rubble, with funding to recover them poised to run out, said Anya Neistat, Amnesty's senior director of global research.
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