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Was an Assault on ISIS HQ Also a Rescue Mission?

From The Sky

Warplanes pounded the ISIS capital on New Year’s Day—part of an operation, well-placed locals say, to save a captured pilot.

On January 1, there was a particularly brutal firefight in Raqqa, ISIS’s capital in Syria. According to al Jazeera, the extremist group beat back a pair of helicopters, packed with commandos that were attempting to land in Raqqa.

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