At first glance, the aerial surveillance video of suspected Islamic State militants moving around Iraq released by the Italian Air Force seems familiar.

The footage, published on Friday by the Italian magazine L’Espresso, begins with grainy black-and-white images of an airstrike on what appears to have been a checkpoint on a road in northern Iraq, beneath a huge black flag.

Then there is something altogether different: high-resolution, color video of four distinct armed figures walking out of a house and along the streets of a town. At one stage, the picture suddenly zooms in on two of the suspected militants to reveal that one of them is almost certainly a child, propping a rifle on his shoulder that indicates how small he is relative to the man next to him. The images are so clear that even the shadows of the figures can be examined.

These images “show off a lot of capability,” Thomas Keenan, the director the Human Rights Program at Bard College, said in an email.