isis-affiliated fighters in afghanistan and pakistan. the group itself that claimed responsibility today was issued by isis main media unit. isis fighters in afghanistan don t have any way of releasing their own their own propaganda, their own messaging. they don t have the freedom to issue their own opinions. everything that they issue, everything that they say is issued through the main isis central media unit and main isis spokesman. so, you know, there isn t as much independence here as i think some people think. this is isis. this is the islamic state that did this, right? and i think it kind of brings us back to something, which is a bit sad, which is that this group, isis affiliated fighters in afghanistan, they were basically dead. two years ago they were dead. there was no attacks being committed by them. they were gone. all of a sudden in the past year and a half, two years, out of nowhere, they have come back and made a tremendous resurgence. and again, you were right, not
0 can t operate in the same way and the afghans they worked with is not assessable. and now to try to find the people responsible for this attack or future attacks is a much more different position. to our viewers just as i took the baton from alicia mendez, i am going to pass it to ari melber. we thank our guests, peter baker and greg mire. we ll be going live to jen psaki as the president departures from the east room heading back to the oval office. jen psaki will take many, many questions, the press corp will have for her. with that, our forecast with ari melber. thank you, we are giving you this continuous coverage on a difficult day in afghanistan as brian williams just mentioned we are here awaiting this briefing from the white house s press secretary. many questions there. you can see reporters already getting into position. we ll bring it to you live. here is the latest on what we know tonight. two suicidal bombers detonated themselves in kabul. the death toll is high. 12
video showing a raid targeting isis affiliated fighters in afghanistan. you can see it here execute american and afghan special op forces. the meant gone saying this pentagon saying it killed an isis commander and we set the story. what are the isis fighters in afghanistan today. lucas. the top u.s. general in afghanistan said the isis affiliated fighters are mostly talabani claiming allegiance to ice pips you re right, isis, you re right, this is rare video showing the raid in northwestern afghanistan. it took place earlier this week killing an isis-affiliated commander. despite hundreds of airstrikes the reach has expanded from eastern afghanistan to the north where officials said they brought in more foreign fighters. isis and afghanistan claimed responsibility for recent suicide attacks in kabul killing
the troops had during the battle and how the mission was approved from the beginning. the questions include, did the mission of u.s. forces change during the operation? did our forces have adequate intelligence, equipment and training? was there an assessment of threat in the area accurate? reporter: a key question, did specific failures result in the 12-man team being attacked by approximately 50 heavily armed isis affiliated fighters and why did it take 48 hours to find the body of sergeant la david johnson? how did they become separated during the engagement, specifically sergeant johnson. reporter: within days, top military officials were aware what was supposed to be routine was plagued with problems. on the intelligence, officials originally said they worked off the best information they had. this was on an going operation, series of operations
wildfire. procession of first responders covering nearly 200 miles. he leaves behind a 2-year-old daughter. you see her there. and a pregnant wife. there is a go fund me page, been started for his family. raised more than $400,000. that s wonderful. well, we now know a u.s. soldier killed and ambushed by isis affiliated fighters in niger fought until the very end. two senior defense officials tell fox news sergeant la david johnson was not executed or captured during the october attack as previous reports suggested. the 25-year-old was shot nearly 18 times. three other american soldiers, including two green berets died also in that attack. vladimir putin praising president trump for providing the intel that prevented a terror attack in st. peters birg. the russian president calling our chief of staff after the cia tipped russian officials off. the white house says president trump was pleased