muscle against isis. reporter: hundreds of u.s. special operations and support forces heading to dangerous ground in iraq and syria. these special operators will, over time, be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence, and capture isil leaders. this force will also be in a position to conduct unilateral operations in syria. reporter: the announcement so send more forces coming after attacks in paris. the military will now do more risky missions, such as special operations hostage rescue raid in october where master sergeant joshua wheeler was killed in action. we re good at intelligence. we re good at mobility. we re good at surprise. we have the long reach that no one else has. and it puts everybody on notice in syria that you don t know at night who s going to be coming in the window, and that s the
jim, the president said, at this point, we shouldn t dill lewd ourselves into thinking that russia is targeting isis but clearly propping up the syrian dictator bashar al assad. reporter: that s right, jake. president obama was very candid today, that he hasn t made much headway in convincing vladimir putin to change his tactics in syria that shift could take months as isis grows stronger. reporter: they ve met face-to-face twice the last month. but they still don t see eye to eye. president obama told reporters at a climate summit in paris, expect russia s vladimir putin to continue to go his own way in the war on isis. at least for now. mr. putin, i don t expect that you re going to see a 180 turn on their strategy over the next several weeks. reporter: that means the u.s. and russia will keep on bombing different targets, with washington taking aim at isis, moscow hitting u.s.-backed
in may provided an initial trove of intelligence, leading to improved information about isis. two operatives still in the u.s. crosshairs, isis leader al baghdadi and adnony. so few details on the new effort that u.s. officials are telling us it could be days or weeks before these u.s. troops arrive. a lot of details still to be worked out. barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you so much. this all comes, of course, as tension between russia and turkey over the downing of a russian fighter jet shows no signs of calming. as president obama is forced to play referee between two world powers who support in the fight against isis, the president considers vital. let s get right to cnn s senior white house correspondent, jim acosta, in paris.
of words between turkey and russia which has escalated dramatically. russia s accusing turkey of intentionally shooting down the russian jet to protect turkey s oil trade with isis. is there any credibility to that idea that turkey s actually getting oil from isis? you know, i don t know. i don t know specifically, you know, factually, if that is the case. there has to be some transit of oil, you know, sort of on the black market, if you will, that is going through turkey. there has to be pause it s not all going out through the mediterranean and coastline of syria. is turkey doing fluff to stop that? i think that turkey could do more. i think they could do more along their border. when we talk about isis being able to achieve roughly the numbers are about 500 million a year in oil sales, i mean, that s something that we should be stopping. i think that they are under
laid out if we re going to achieve what the president wants to achieve, destruction of isis. what i m hearing is you don t think this is long term enough. no. what s needed, then, you think? i do believe there has to be some type of arab nato-like structure formed. there has to be recognition that the arab community in that particular region, actually the transregion area to include some countries from north africa have to be part of what i describe as nato-like organization that gets after this problem. general flynn, stick around. i want your thoughts on the terrorist attacks in france and what the u.s. should be doing to make sure nothing like that happens here. we ll take a quick break. we ll be right back.