But it is not just isis. Why this country is attack another group of terrorists you never heard of until now. Will air strikes make us safer or put us in danger on the home front. We have a busy program to got to. Cnn reporters around the world. They will have the late forest you along with our team of military and security experts. We want want to begin with breaking news. Terror fears in the homeland. A senior official tells cnn, khoras khorasan, comes amid concerns of lone wolf attacks. Lets get the latest from cnns justice correspondent, pamela brown. Pamela, good evening. What can you tell us abut these attacks and khorasan . We can tell you that this group of al qaeda operatives in syria, called khorasan had been on u. S. Officials radar since at least the springtime. Recent intelligence suggested the group was in advance stage plotting an attack against the west, europe or the u. S. , by using western recruits. U. S. Officials felt like they had to act fast to disrupt the plotti
Breached by, i understand, five Syrian Regime vehicles. What happened . Hi, brooke. Let me walk you through it. You know, a very rare air strike in this area. Why is it so important . Because these malicious groups were proregime but shia militias backed by iran. They were moving in on an area in southeastern syria where the u. S. Special forces have operated very frequently trying to train syrian opposition. So you have these iranianbacked militias coming down the road, tanks, bulldozers, frontend loader vehicles and they dont get the hint that they are not supposed to be moving against this base where theres opposition and very likely u. S. And other Coalition Special forces. There was sort of a show of force. Aircraft fly over, trying to push them back, they dont get the message, they keep coming. So u. S. Aircraft then rolled in and dropped a couple of bombs, destroying a tank, destroying a couple of the vehicles. A message back to these shia militias definitely to back off and sta
this is a very crucial area of syria. this is where the borders of jordan, iraq and syria meet. it s a crossroads. and prior to a few months ago it was the main way that the iraqi shia militias were moving back and forth between the two countries. the free syrian army has blocked that off. we re seeing a challenge and we re seeing the u.s. rise to that challenge. brooke, i hate to say it, but we re getting more and more involved in the fighting in syria, not against isis but the civil war. carl francona, barbara starr, thank you. more breaking news on capitol hill where right now deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is about to face all 100 members of the senate to reveal what exactly he knows about the decision that led to the firing of fbi director james comey. it s not enough for someone who s been on the job for just 23 days. he will also have to explain why he just hired a special counsel