we weren't expecting this large number to join, but there are now 4,000 tribesmen, he says. when we want to move, all of them are ready, and we've already managed to sneak weapons to them. we're moving forward. western leaders call this a global fight, but here, alone, you feel the dust, death, and determination. >> nick, so powerful, what you've seen there and experienced. give us an ideas, from those that you're talking to on the ground, how effective that air assault is. >> reporter: for those kurds, they are a series of thuds in the distance of intense fire, but activists inside raqqah has been giving a long list of targets, they believe, have been hit by those french and possibly russian air strikes, too. and they seem to focus mostly on key parts of infrastructure. large buildings of roundabouts. something called the al shabaab club, it's a youth club, effectively. even the fact that some of these munitions dropped, we can't