We’ve got your back! Stunning moment French special forces blow up a suicide truck heading for allied forces in Raqqa seconds after a wire-guided missile misses the target 

• Incredible video opens with a suicide truck rumbling through the desert
• It is being tracked by a missile which misses its target, leading to panic
• But French special operatives in Raqqa are paying close attention 
• Huge missile explosion takes out the suicide truck and any occupants 

Incredible footage has emerged from the front lines of the fight against Islamic State as French forces came to the rescue to destroy a suicide vehicle.

The video, filmed by Riam Dalati near Raqqa, shows a vehicle making quick progress across the desert.

That truck is a Suicide Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device, or SVBIED, and it is seen accelerating at some speed toward the cameraman, while there are shouts in the background.

It is being driven by a Islamic State suicide bomber.

To the left of the car, the video shows a white light, a wire-guided missile, being fired from a ATGM launcher. 

But the missile launched by Kurdish fighters in the YPG misses its target.

Panicked voices can be heard in the video's background, before French special forces save the day. 

A small cloud of smoke appears behind the car, which is still powering through the desert towards its own target.

Then the dramatic explosion takes place, close behind the vehicle.

French Special Operations have fired a missile at the suicide truck, saving the day after the first miss.

It could have been a Javelin missile, a US made 'fire and forget' weapon. 

Cries and shouts of relief can be heard in the background as one man shouts 'Yes!' when seeing what has happened.

On November 6, the RAF joined the fight for Islamic State’s de-facto capital Raqqa.

US intelligence sources say the terror group’s attacks against Western targets are being plotted from the Syrian city, adding urgency to coalition plans to launch an attack.

Speaking as the operation got under way, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the RAF would be involved in a two-pronged attack in Iraq and Syria. 

He said: ‘We’re supporting Iraqi-led forces defeating Daesh (IS) in Mosul and the RAF will support the Raqqa operation as it develops.

‘Our strikes are making a difference in Mosul now and our sophisticated surveillance effort is helping give the coalition a vital edge in Syria.’

Some 30,000 moderate fighters, backed by the US and led by the Kurds, said they had begun the military campaign to liberate Raqqa, urging civilians to avoid ‘enemy gatherings’ in the city.