"It was a terrible night. We heard the roar of the jets, the
detonations. Then, the power suddenly went out and everything sunk into
darkness," the young woman on the phone says. She said that she could
only see the flashes from the explosions, with one bomb landing right
near where she was. "But I don't want to die after all that we have
already gone through here."
The woman is from Raqqa, where Islamic State has its headquarters in
Syria. She lives there together with her parents and brothers. Still. As
do so many other civilians. On the phone, she was describing the first
wave of attacks in the "war" that French President François Hollande
declared against..''
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