General dempsey said the Islamic State can only be defeated if the fight is taken to them in syria. Does the president agree with that . If so, how does he intend to undertake it . And would it mean a significant change in the mission against Islamic State . We certainly agree that any strategy to deal with the isil organization has to deal with both sides of the border, iraq and syria. The strategy that we are already undertaking does address that in the sense that we are providing training and equipping and assistance to the Iraqi Security forces and kurdish Security Forces who are fighting them on the ground in iraq. Were also providing support and military assistance to the Syrian Opposition. What wed like to see is those efforts squeeze the space where isil operates. But there are other elements to our strategy. One is to enlist the support of partners in the region and the international community. Because this poses a significant threat not just to the United States and to the ir
The white house will say as far as isis is concerned. Lets dip in. Isis can only be defeated if a fight is taken in syria. Is that does the president agree with that . And if so, how does he intend to undertake it, and would it mean a significant change in the mission against Islamic State . We certainly agree any strategy to deal with the isil organization has to deal with both sides of the border, iraq and syria. The strategy that we are already undertaking does address that. In the sense that we are providing training and equipment and assistance to the Iraqi Security forces and kurdish Security Forces fighting them on the ground in iraq. We are also providing support and military assistance to the moderate syrian opposition. What we would like to see is those those efforts squeeze the space where isil operates. But there are other elements to our strategy. One is to enlist the support of partners in the region and the international community. Because this poses a significant threat
Office says a deal was reached with Vladimir Putin but a minute later a senior putin spokesman rejected that claim and there was doubt expressed any ceasefire would hold. President obama made clear any hope of peace lies with the russians. If, in fact, russia is prepared to stop financing, arming, training and in many cases joining with Russian Troops activities in ukraine and is serious about a political settlement, that is something we all hope for. Because we have breaking news, lets unpack one crisis at a time. You can see we have a full field of coverage here. Let us introduce them to you, john avlon, the cnn political analyst and editorinchief of daily beast. Major general james spider sparks, cnn analyst and u. S. Army retired and new executive dean of the university of phoenix, mr. Bobby ghosh and an anna coren and reza sayah. U. S. Troops, more of them, headed into iraq. The president has authorized the deployment of 350 additional sets of boots on the ground. The white house
Will work to cut off their financing and to stop the flow of fighters into and out of the region and already over 40 nations have offered to join this coalition. Today i ask the world to join in the effort. Right now the president is meeting with iraqs new Prime Minister and in a few hours the president will hold the other major event at the u. N. Today. Hell chair a Security Council summit on foreign terrorist fighters. All amid new u. S. Are strikes in syria and iraq. In an interview on today susan rice assess the damage done by the first round of u. S. Lead air strikes in syria. We think the strikes had an impact an important impact. Cant exactly quantify it. We have Battle Damage assessment, which is a rolling assessment of the impact of our strikes. I think the first instance we feel very good about our success. But well continue to take a look and well be doing more. And joining me now in studio Andrea Mitchell, the host of Andrea Mitchell report that follows this hour. Thank you
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. As the moon moves into a new phase, so does the war against isis. The United States and five arab allies took advantage of a dark, moonless night to expand attacks against the Sunni Terrorist Group into syria. President obama stressed this is just the beginning of a Long Campaign to destroy isis. The allied attacks overnight involved the u. S. , bahrain, jordan, saudi arabia, qatar, and the united arab emirates. 14 isis targets were hit. The u. S. , acting alone, launched eight strikes against another terror group, an al qaeda offshoot called khorasan. We have a team of correspondents on the story. First, well go to david martin first at the pentagon. Reporter the desert bloomed with fireballs as Cruise Missiles and precisionguided weapons, some of them launched by arab aircraft, hit an isis Training Area in eastern syria. That strike took place near the end of a fourhour aerial assault wh