Caught on video: ISIS flag blown to bits in Syria in humongous explosion

25 Oct, 2014 by Rachel Alexander

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An Islamic militant can be seen almost calmly watching the explosion, as the smoke burrows up around his legs.

An Islamic militant can be seen almost calmly watching the explosion, as smoke burrows up around his legs.

Yesterday morning, an American airstrike ripped an Islamic State black jihadist banner to shreds where it had been raised over Tilsehir hill in Syria, outside of Kobane, a strategically important area near the Turkish border. A few hours later, the good guys, Kurdish resistance forces, put up their own Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) flag.

Western Journalism posted a video below, featuring multiple explosions, and people can be heard clapping and cheering in the background. The site reports, “you can see the moment the hillside erupted into flames with one militant running for his life and another fighter engulfed by an enormous cloud of dense smoke.”

The lesson from all this? Don’t mess with the U.S.

The Kurdish resistance movement raised its triangular flag immediately afterwards.

The ISIS flag right before it was blown to bits.

Rachel Alexander

Rachel Alexander is the editor of Intellectual Conservative. She is a senior editor at The Stream, and is a regular contributor to Townhall, the Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research, and The Christian Post, and provides weekend news items for Right Wing News. She frequently appears on TV and news radio as a conservative commentator. She is a recovering attorney and former gun magazine editor. She previously served as a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Arizona, corporate attorney for Go Daddy Software, and Special Assistant/Deputy County Attorney for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. As co-president of the UW Political Science Honor Society, she obtained degrees in Political Science and History from the University of Washington, followed by a law degree from Boston College and the University of Arizona. She was ranked by Right Wing News as one of the 50 Best Conservative Columnists from 2011-2017.