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What an ISIS suicide attack looks like from the air and the ground

An Islamic State suicide attack carried out earlier this week was captured by both a television camera crew and by the terrorist group’s drone in their de facto capital of Raqqa, offering dual perspectives on the bloody, urban combat that has become a hallmark of the conflicts in Syria and Iraq. The attack, which reportedly occurred Tuesday, was […]

Thomas Gibbons-Neff writes for The Washington Post:

An Islamic State suicide attack carried out earlier this week was captured by both a television camera crew and by the terrorist group’s drone in their de facto capital of Raqqa, offering dual perspectives on the bloody, urban combat that has become a hallmark of the conflicts in Syria and Iraq.

The attack, which reportedly occurred Tuesday, was geolocated using the stills from the Islamic State drone to a neighborhood in eastern Raqqa, where U.S.-backed fighters, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, are fighting to push into the city.