Abood Hamam seen filming IS takeover of Raqqa

When the Islamic State group took over Raqqa, most journalists fled.

Abood Hamam, once a photographer to Bashar al-Assad, should have been in more danger than most, but he stayed, and went on working.

Extraordinary footage discovered later in the mobile phone of a dead IS fighter shows him in a long galabiya gown filming at a road junction.

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