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Maj Gen Adel Issa, 67, is accused of a raft of crimes allegedly committed during the Syrian civil war, which ended in December 2024 when rebel forces took the capital, Damascus, and Assad fled.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

So they lifted her onto a makeshift raft made of banana trunks, and carried her through the rushing water towards safety.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Each of these viruses comes with a raft of symptoms ranging from unpleasant to, in some cases, fatal—fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, shock, organ failure.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

They’re looking for photos and videos of the child on a raft or boat with other children, and witnesses who could have seen the child before she was pulled from the water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

But Josie had already dived down under the raft and begun swimming for the ladder.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

“He’s landing rockets on robot drone rafts in the ocean, and you’re saying he doesn’t know what he’s doing,” Ellison rebuffed critics at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

No, the truly strange thing — still remarkable to experience among thousands — is the way their fame is grounded in epic rafts of sci-fi nerdiness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Photos shared by the Royal Thai Navy showed heavy black smoke billowing from the hull and superstructure of the Thai-registered Mayuree Naree, with life rafts floating in the water.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

The process resembles natural strategies seen in diving bell spiders, which carry air bubbles underwater, and in fire ants, which form floating rafts using their water-resistant bodies.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2026

Northwest of downtown, in the old Scandinavian neighborhood of Ballard, tugboats belching plumes of black smoke nosed long rafts of logs into the locks that would raise them to the level of Lake Washington.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

The first mammal from South America discovered in the older beds was from a primate species, which is presumed to have rafted across the seaway.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024

In Wyoming, the Thomases fished, rafted on the Snake River and sat by a campfire overlooking the Teton Range with the other couples.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2023

By then he’d served as captain and guide on many California rivers, and he’d rafted the Colorado River.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

Pamina was operating “without sufficient competent crew,” states a Feb. 23 filing by Seattle resident Nicholas Leede, whose 39-foot sailboat suffered $62,117 in damage while rafted in the back row.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2023

“NOTES: “Today I rafted out into the deep pools of the creek to fish.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Dollywood’s latest project: a more than $50 million, first-of-its-type indoor ride that combines a thrill coaster with white-water rafting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Marczak said he had begun the film almost by accident, when he and his wife were rafting down the river thinking about a fiction project when they ran into trouble.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

Both the Guisane and Durance are popular rivers for white water rafting, fed by glaciers and snowmelt in the spring.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2025

A British woman has died on a white-water rafting excursion in the French Alps.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2025

When I was finally allowed to read it, I very well knew this was no simple tale of rafting down a river but the everlasting story of America itself, with all our glory and shame.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam