CNN: Raqqa: Secret video shows ISIS losing chokehold on its 'capital'
(CNN)At first, the video shows a seemingly normal urban life -- men and women shopping in the streets, with steady traffic passing by them.
A closer look shows this is a city under threat -- tarpaulins along streets hide the movements of fighters from surveillance drones and sandbags outside buildings might offer some protection from a blast from the sky or the ground.
For this is not any normal city -- this is Raqqa, the heart of ISIS's attempt to build its own state or caliphate. And it is crumbling.
Just the fact that activists filmed the secret footage now obtained exclusively by CNN is perhaps the most telling sign that the self-proclaimed capital of a reign of terror is coming to an end.
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WNU Editor: It is going to take time .... but it looks like the end game for the Islamic State in Raqaa is in sight.
"their warped way of life"
ReplyDeleteTypical BBC. Wouldn't say that about Saudi Arabia or Tehran