Russian warplanes have resumed intense strikes on rural Idlib with internationally-prohibited vacuum, phosphorus and cluster bombs.
Interesting comments coming out of Raqqa....
Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
Here's the full video of @Raqqa_SL at the International Journalism Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9fjQpm9yEk
"A million people living under ISIS in Syria haven't joined ISIS despite everything ISIS is offering them"
"Our group has training in digital security. But more importantly it's our city and we know it well, ISIS are foreigners @Raqqa_SL
He has been commenting out of Raqqa on a frequent basis and many at first thought he was IS....just as there was a single commenter out of Palmyra which has not been heard from since the Russians arrived in Palmyer.
"In January, the biggest killer of civilians has been Russia, killing far more even than ISIS" @Raqqa_SL
"YPG coordinates with the Syrian regime and anyone who coordinates with the Syrian regime is our enemy" @Raqqa_SL
"YPG didn't allow us to report on their atrocities, but they're dictators too" @Raqqa_SL
"The ideology of extremism is the main enemy, ISIS will be defeated one day but we don't want another radicalized generation" @Raqqa_SL
"ISIS tried to recruit children in every way so we launched our own magazine and smuggled it into Raqqa" @Raqqa_SL
"We're not only fighting ISIS, we're fighting for our future. Assad is still the main enemy." @Raqqa_SL
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