Hitting Raqqah News Today

Authorities off the trail. this should be something french authorities can identify. hes alienated from his family. you would think they would cooperate and dna testing could be done soon whether it was abu killed. >> the suspicion is he was in syria, in raqqah with the leader of isis abby baky backer al bag. >> one thing this highlights is gaps in our intelligence collection in part because of so-called end to end encryption, whether in a playstation 4 or app or i message in iphone, terrorists ...

For u.s. air controllers training with the french in nato to be on the ground in syria against isis. and that would be -- it would better help them targeting the isis targets inside syria. they really want to ramp that up. russia today again hitting raqqah but also told that russia is running out of precision-guided weapons so this could be carpet bombing rather than target bombing and could be civilian targets and the u.s. really stepping up its air strikes, taking out 116 oil tankers today. th...

Expensive. >> reporter: it sounds like hell. >> yeah. >> reporter: one woman snuck a camera under her vail risking her life to film this video depicting isis brutal treatment of women. >> they cant go outside alone. if she want to go outside, she should go with a husband, father, brother, or whatever and she should -- and she should cover all herself. the woman in raqqah or in isis areas are nothing, just they use them only to do sex, to buy and sell the yezidi girls. >> reporter: they are makin...

Video changing it to new york city. >> there is no doubt their intention is to strike the united states. we see they have the capability to strike not just in paris but lebanon and civilian airliners coming out of egypt. its important we all ask ourself this question, you, me, the american people, president obama, what would we do after a paris style attack in iraq or washington or new york? we should do that now? >> what do you recommend? >> significantly increase the campaign and number of bom...

Zipping his jacket over a suicide belt in crowded manhattan street scenes. jets from russia and france hitting raqqah. today pentagon officials explain these targets werent hit earlier because isis continuously changing fighting communications and headquarters within that city. raqqah once was home to some 200,000 people. cnns global affairs correspondent has a rare look inside that so-called isis capital. its pretty scary what is going on there. >> very scary. we rarely get a glimps inside the ...

Only way to say what life is life under extremist rule. isis banned journalist, replacing them with slick propaganda glamorizing life in the state. a dozen activist are pulling back the curtain of isis rule in their city, once among syrias most liberal. they call themselves raqqah is being slaughtered silently. >> isis started to execute and humorize in raqqah and no one did anything for the city, no one every heard about it. so we did our campaign trying to put the attention on our city to mayb...