of this. of course t, the smaller that troop presence gets, the higher the risk to the troops on the ground. given what happened this week with 13 service members killed, pam, this is top of mind for the president and his top aides. they re on high alert at the white house. oren, what more have you learned about the drone attack overnight that killed two isis militants? reporter: it was carried out in the city of jalalabad in nangarhar province. the initial assessment from the pentagon which came late last night after a warning to leave the airport, said that one isis planner was killed in the attack, that was updated this morning to say two isis personnel were killed in the attack and another wounded. cnn has spoken with afghan
ultimately do anything than fight the turks ourselves or wave them through. th this, to me, is so tragic, because all of it could have been avoidable, had trump decided to do the diplomatic work ahead of the american pullout. on the nuclear weapons point, obviously the relationship with turkey is fraught for a million different reasons and has been for a long time. do you give credence to those reports? david sanger piece in the new york times, does that worry you? it does. listen, we do have to step back and assess what kind of security partnership we re willing to have with the turks. this is the latest in what has been a long series of moves by the turks that suggest they don t really want to be in a long-term mutual defense relationship with the united states. beginning of the syria conflict, we were begging the turks to shut down the border because they were actively waving through isis personnel and resources into syria so they could create problems for the
fight the turks ourselves or wave them through. this, to me, is so tragic, because all of it could have been avoidable, had trump decided to do the diplomatic work ahead of the american pullout. on the nuclear weapons point, obviously the relationship with turkey is fraught for a million different reasons and has been for a long time. do you give credence to those reports? david sanger piece in the new york times, does that worry you? it does. listen, we do have to step back and assess what kind of security partnership we re willing to have with the turks. this is the latest in what has been a long series of moves by the turks that suggest they don t really want to be in a long-term mutual defense relationship with the united states. beginning of the syria conflict, we were begging the turks to shut down the border because they were actively waving through isis personnel and resources into syria so they could create problems for the syrian regime and the kurds
investigation the fbi says it believes kang was acting alone and that no classified materials or information ever actually ended up in the hands of isis terrorist. he next appears in federal court on thursday. bret: thank you. we have new videos and i of what syria s government says are its troops fighting isis terrorist in the southwestern part of the country. hearings news agency reported military source says army units and pro-government allies inflicted heavy losses on isis personnel and equipment. it said the army reestablished for control over a number of strategic villages and towns while driving isis fighters for the desert. no independent confirmation of that. sporadic fighting continues in iraq a day after the prime minister declared total victory over isis. several air strikes hit the old city neighborhood that was the scene of the first battles final days. the top u.s. commander in iraq says there may be a couple hundred isis fighters still
their air strikes in syria took him out. they are using qualified language. so are we. we should tell you, we had many reports in the past about al bagdadi s death that have not turned out to be true. we are approaching this with caution. his whereabouts have not been known for some time. if this is true, it is a major blow to the terror group. let s start with clarissa ward. she is live for us in london. she has reported extensively from the war zone in syria. what are your thoughts with this news, clarissa? reporter: gewe are getting me information from the russian defense ministry as to what they think happened. they say on may 28th they carried out an air strike targeting in raqqah. they say during the course of the air strike, some 330 isis personnel were killed. among them 30 mid level or what they describe as mid level field