several developments today in the crisis in iraq. the pentagon said that the u.s. military is flying armed drones over baghdad to protect troops and diplomats. human watch say there is evidence that islamic state in iraq and the levant killed up to 180 men after taking tikrit. the ayatollah called on the country. mike viqueira is live for us on the white house with more on these militants. do the drones represent a major escalation. reporter: here s what we knew and what we know now. forces have flown over iraq to identify where the enemy is and ar where are the targets. and drones that are faced elsewhere surrounding iraq. what we now know is that some of those drones are armed. what u.s. officials are say something that the reason that they re armed is to protect u.s. interest in iraq right now. not only those individuals within private contracts that they should be evacuated, but part of those 300 advisers, the first wave of which has entered iraq to try to assess th
several developments today in the crisis in iran. the u.s. military is flying armed drones over baghdad to protect u.s. troops and diplomats. human rights say it has evidence fighters of islamic state in iraq and the levant killed up to 190 men after taking tikrit this month. mike viqueira is live for us at the white house with more on these developments. mike, does the president s drones in the iraqi theater, let s call it that, represent a major escalation for the united states? we do know that the united states was flying drones as well as f-18 off the aircraft car carrier george h bush. what they re doing is getting a better idea of those islamic state in iraq and the levant and trying to identify targets. today we do learn that some of those drones are armed. the pent makes no apologize for that, and they say that they re there as private contractors and some of those 300 or so advisers, about half who are in country can be protected if it comes to that. they describ
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