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It is possible that you have a training camp, recruitment center and arms depot in raqqa still left for the french to hit in one night, what the heck was the united states and coalition doing up to this point? >> its a fair question. these are difficult targets, raqqa is a heavily populated city, thats one reason isis is there, because the u.s. and coalition partners dont want to have collateral damage. they hide in plain sight in effect. isis does have an organization and needs stuff. it needs ...

In their target? >> reporter: well, erin, you have to be clear, buildings were once called clinical hospital, no longer used in that way by isis. they take over parts of the civilian infrastructure and turn them into at times prisons or other things unimaginable to the normal human being. we dont quite know what those buildings have become. we dont know the level of intelligence gathering that the west has inside of raqqa. theyve been doing all they can to infiltrate that city. you have to ask y...

And this is what happened exactly what happened. so we need to do that first and to increase, to put more resources to really try to dismantle the structures ever command and training facilities of isis which made it possible for several terrorist attacks in europe, including the paris attacks. >> jim shuuto, let me ask you something -- to take a step back. when people watching here there have been 7,000 or so air strikes in the past year or so. they know that a lot of those have been on areas n...

Kurdish militia force, whose capital im standing in right now against sinjar, which cleared isis out indeed and design d to cut off one of the key supply routes to raqqa. part of a broader strategy. i have to point out on twitter, some people who support isis suggest similarly after death of the jordanian pilot, there were air strikes and this could be a knee jeerk reaction from france. right now as we speak, the french air force in action over raqqa, highly symbolic, effective moment against is...

Been, where they have hit and the accuracy of targeting and thats something else to be debated. its clear according to what jim has been reporting too, that the americans are quite willing to share their raw intelligence about whats happening inside raqqa and it will be improving the accuracy what the french be able to do. talk of a ground operation, i have to be honest, we have to put that very far away from where we are right now. this is a hard deal here. even the noigs of building up the syr...

To in terms of raqqa as the stadium area and political building too. now those are landmarks by those names by may no longer have those particular jobs. this is clearly a number of targets. we donlt know whos behind all of the bombing, despite the french ministry being clear they are bombing heavily now, raqqa as we speak. we dont know what the buildings serve as a purpose right now. giving the timing and the announcement that their jets are over the skies in raqqa, you can be pretty sure what w...

One correction, early on we were trying to figure out where the air strikes were coming from. the french are soon deploying their only aircraft carrier to the persian gul. were told these air strikes were launched out of the uae in jordan. planes based in the region taking part in the air campaign carried out these attacks tonight. peter, this question of raqqa and what is next. obviously france is going to go after raqqa. you need to go after where the people in charge of isis are head quarte...

The face of isis may be dead. according to the pentagon u.s. special forces targeted jihadi john during an air strike in raqqa, syria. officials are trying to determine if that mission worked but a senior official tells cnn that sources are confident jihadi john was taken out. nick paton walsh is imbedded with troops on the ground in iraq and jonathan gilliam is me-w me, too. nick, youre on the ground. sinjar fell falser than anyone expected. why? >> reporter: its not entirely clear whether isis...

Syrian opposition group, raqqa is being slaughtered silently. the group says the vehicle in which jihadi john was riding was hit directly, along with two other vehicles. they say the attack happened in front of the isis islamic court in raqqa and isis militants then established the security ring around those three destroyed vehicles and banned anyone from coming closer. the activist group says it -- the activist group has been a reliable source of information from inside raqqa in the past. thats...

Its truly -- listen. >> there was a woman who violated the dress code, her cloak had design on it, she says, they brought her to me and i lashed her 40 times. nbc news obtained these rare images filmed recently in secret inside raqqa and smuggled out at great risk. isis fighters operate openly despite the u.s. bombing campaign. she was also an isis enforcer. the women say they grew to resent isis and its brutality. public execution, beheadings. a body would stay hung on the street so you would h...