Woman Secretly Films What Its Like to Live in ISIS-Controlled City

The France 2 news network recently aired this report using footage secretly captured by a Syrian woman living in the ISIS-controlled city of Raqqa. In the video, traffic proceeds silently as music and entertainment are banned, women are harassed and forced to be fully covered and pedestrians are armed with assault rifles. At one point, the camera-operator goes into an Internet café where a French woman explains to her weeping family that she is not returning, after moving to make a new life in the self-described Islamic state. In the past week, the United States has stepped up airstrikes against ISIS, who now controls large parts of Iraq and Syria …