VIDEO: Exploration of Covert ISIS Fortifications in Liberated Syrian Town

Thu May 12, 2016 12:24:52

Extensive networks of underground tunnels and bunkers, dug out by ISIS terrorists to store ammo and weapons, have also served as sleeping quarters and shelters against airstrikes in Syrian town of Shaddadi.

For nearly two years the town of Shaddadi in northeastern Syria was a stronghold of Daesh.

Touring the remains of the war-torn city, the RT crew were impressed to glimpse for themselves a warren of tunnels and underground bomb shelters built by now-vanquished radical terrorists. Militants used them to burrow under an enemy positions to plant explosives, create underground bunkers or run pipes to export illicit oil shipments; RT reported.

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