ancient word for the region. they re there but not as significant as the taliban which controls a third of the afghanistan population. they re at the highest point i think we ve seen since the fall of the taliban in december 2001. isis is just one of the many jihadi groups in afghanistan right now, including al qaeda. the islamic movement of uzbekistan and many others. so i wouldn t say they re hugely important. the real issue is the fact that the taliban have taken you re in helmand in 2009, anderson. you ll recall the district fought by the marines, the british marines and the american marines with a lot of deaths has now been retaken by the taliban. and that s quite a significant victory. unfortunately one of in the taliban have had in recent months. general marks, this is really a reminder to a lot of people who maybe haven t paid attention to afghanistan. and we didn t hear a lot about afghanistan frankly during the presidential campaign that is t war is still very much going on
the afghan population and the military, which is the main goal in afghanistan is to protect the afghanistan population, so you can see where this is causing problems diplomatically, militarily and among the social population in afghanistan, jon. jon: if you wanted to script a scenario in which one person undoes the work of ten years of war, this is just about it. conor powell, reporting live from kabul, thank you. jenna: now this fox news alert. the death toll rising in the gaza strip in a fourth day of violence there, militants releasing this video behind me, in fact, showing what they claim are rockets launching into southern israel this morning. now, the attack follows a series of israeli air strikes that killed two palestinian militants and a young boy. the worst shines between israel and the hamas-ruled territory in months. leland vitter is live in israel with the latest. leland. reporter: as of now, jenna, we have about 220