significantly increase our airstrikes against isil to the highest level since the start our operations in august 2014. moreover, because of improved intelligence and understanding of isil s operations, we intensified the air campaign against the oil enterprise, a critical pillar of the infrastructure. in addition to destroying fixed facility, we destroyed nearly 400 of isil s oil force reducing a source of it daily revenues. we are also improving our capability to eliminate isil s
air campaign with additional aircraft to target isis over the higher heavy strikes. this would include more strikes against isil targets as intelligence improves. also oil enterprise if the president approves those recommendations from the went gone it means there would can more more hostage situations like last week. the u.first u.s. combat fatalit in the war against isis. they are not authorizing large scale ground forces like they did in afghanistan. it would clearly represent a reverse in strategy since president obama had a stated goal of getting u.s. troops out of iraq and keeping u.s. troops out of syria. heather and ainsley. kristin fisher live for us. thank you. republican lawmakers banning
also its oil enterprise, which is a critical pillar of isil s financial infrastructure. as i said last friday, we ve already begun to ramp up these deliberate strikes. u.s. and coalition forces launched 13 air strike against isis in syria and arack on monday. the white house is yet to decide on the new options, but several republican senators are criticizing the proposed strategy. they question whether u.s. trained forces would begin fighting syria s assad regime and not just isis. if i m assad, this is a good day for me. the american government has just said, without saying it, they re not going to fight to replace me. what you done, gentlemen, along with the president is you ve turned syria over to russia and iran. all i can say is there is a sad day for america and the syrians
which is also a head quarters of isis from a bigger show from the ai air. from the skies above we expect to intensify the air campaign with the u.s. coalition and other aircraft to target isis with a air strikes which is going to inkrecrease the high ve targets as the intelligence improves. and also, targeting the oil enterprise which is a critical part of the structure. as i have said last friday, we have already begun to ramp up the deliberate strikes. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is joining us. barbara, there were some fireworks up at the hearing, but not a lot of clear answers about the shifting strategy in the fight against isis in iraq and syria, and what is the bottom line? well, look, wolf when you talk to the officials in the pentagon, they are going to tell you to look at a change in tone by ash carter and the pentagon leadership and the commanders