With a camera under her veil, a brave Syrian woman risked her life to document oppression under the Islamic State rule in Raqqa, a northern city in Syria known to be the group's stronghold. The remarkable footage was aired this week on a French news site called France 2

The unnamed woman dared to mingle with terrorists in the Islamic State-besieged town, carrying a hidden camera under her niqab, a cloth covering the face as part of the mandatory black dress called hijab. The Islamist group overran the city in March 2013 and has since then put it under fundamentalist Sharia law.

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Raqqa has been the target of aerial bombardments launched early this week by the United States and its Arab allies. The Monday airstrikes have reportedly bombed 20 Islamic State targets in the area, including armed vehicles, training camps, headquarters, command centers, and other facilities vital to military operations.

The shocking film, which was produced in February and April this year, features what life is like under the control of the Islamist group.

It shows men carrying AK47s in the streets going about their daily business. In another scene, a woman was shown with the same weapon slung across her shoulders as she walks a young child to a park.

It later featured the undercover woman's encounter with Islamic State fighters who called her from a car and rebuked her for not behaving better in public, New York Daily News reported.

When the woman asked why, she was told that her face could be seen. She has to cover up because "God loves women who are covered," the Mirror quoted the man in the video as saying.

The video then switches to an internet café where several women were seen openly conversing with their relatives abroad. One woman speaking in fluent French was telling her mother how she does not wish to come home to France and that everything broadcasted against the terrorist group was false.

The unnamed narrator said that about 150 French women have flown to Syria either to join their Islamic State fighter husbands or to get married.

Although reasons were not elaborated, these women apparently joined the jihadist group in matrimony and ideology, an essential element of Islamist fundamentalism spread by the terror group, the undercover woman said.

Tags Raqqa, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh, Islamist fundamentalism