Sniper lights up IS killers
13 September 2016 - 09:52
It reads like a Hollywood action movie, but with a British flavour: a sniper 1.5km away took out a four-man Islamic State execution team in Syria with a single bullet as they were about to murder hostages using a flamethrower. The Sun reported on Sunday that the extraordinary incident occurred at a village near the jihadist stronghold of Raqqa, where British and US special forces routinely operate behind enemy lines.
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