Zahra Almahdi, left, stands in the background as Mohamad, 9, holds his father's hand Abdul-Kareem, right, in the living room of their home in Newport News. Almahdi moved his family from Raqqa to the United States in September 2016 after spending four years living at a refugee camp in Jordan. Located in the north eastern part of Syria and seized by militants in late 2013, the city the family once lived, is now the capitol of the Islamic State.