This is the road that Barakat Ahmad Barakat and his Syrian friends took the night that U.S. airstrikes targeted their van during the 2019 raid on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Pentagon said the men ignored warning shots, but an NPR investigation found that the shots were fired mere seconds before the airstrikes. Video filmed on June 24, 2023. Progress (Note: Click or tap the video to pause or play.)
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