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 who s behind all of the bombing, despite the french ministry being clear they are bombing heavily now, raqqa as we speak. we don t 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 we re hearing from both sides, the argument inside raqqa is some sort of statement of intent inside raqqa. we don t know where the french jets have taken off from. the caliphate that is raqqa. the most recent offensive backed by coalition air strikes and
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. we re 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 quartered after their stronghold. what about everywhere else? the strength of isis comes from the fact it is not necessarily centralized and you have so many people to go to train or fight who are all also europe. you could take raqqa out and that wouldn t take out the organization, would it? it wouldn t necessarily. but raqqa is an important place for the islamic state. it is true that ail lot of the
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, you re on the ground. sinjar fell falser than anyone expected. why? reporter: it s not entirely clear whether isis didn t want to fight for it or whether they decided to let the numerous booby traps and land mines we ve seen plant around that city by person peshmerga do its part. they were on foot in the
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. that s why i m passing this along to you. of course, barbara starr, pentagon correspondent, will have more at the top of the hour. groundbreaking new hope for american women unable to conceive a child. the cleveland clinic says it s ready to transplant a uterus into a woman who lacks one. ten women will be chosen for a medical trial. success was found in sweden last year where nine women received donated uteruses. five achieved pregnancy and four
it s 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 have to pass it, she said. it was disgusting. they escaped to the relative safety of turkey. i know many women too scared to leave, she says, worried isis will find them in turkey and kill them. all right. gail, it s horrifying. it is. and you know, there are both those who have been lured there, you know, they were talking