raqqah, syria, getting a first look at what is left behind. u.s. backed forces celebrating a victory on the streets but danger remains. arwa damian inside raqqah for us with the latest. arwa? take a look at destruction around us. this is one of the main squares in rack ka and it was here where isis would carry out its public beheadings and executions and put the heads of its victims on these spikes. a gruesome, chilling reminder to anyone who walked by what their fate could be if they even dared to defy isis rule. a handful of fighters around us. they re actually from the female unit of the syrian democratic forces, backed by the u.s.-led coalition, and they re very proud of their role in this. they say that women had to play and did play a significant role in the liberation of raqqah because isis was so oppressive towards women and, in fact, this very square is where they would
they are fighting for more than territory in rack ka, the mission is to free from the male mentality imposed upon them and send a message to isis, syrian women are strong women. the photographer here for reuters. love to hear your thoughts on facebook, inis a and twitter. i ll be up in new york next week where president trump will be. back to my day job. joining ali velshi and stephanie ruhle in person on monday. see you on monday. how did this happen? we can t be in the same place at the same time. ships in the night, gang. have a great rest of your day. good morning, everyone. i m stephanie ruhle, it is friday, august 11th. let s get started. solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded. people that were questioning that statement, was it too tough? maybe it wasn t tough enough. north korea better get their act
defeat isil in its parent tumor in syria and iraq and wherever else in the world this evil organization metasizes. 800 isis fighters have set up a shadow state in the event the headquarters gets pushed out of rack ka in syria. we have a new way to search and analyze all of the presidential candidates and we re going to show you the fascinating find like which demographic supports donald trump the most? it might surprise you. you just heard from secretary of defense ash carter talking u.s. strategy against isis. he admits that we haven t contained them. so what do we actually need to do to turn the page on the terror group? that coming up. the reality is, we re at
operates. isis talks about going over into southeast asia. they re going to say we want new groups on countries like we see on the map here. he s take a quick look. we talk about rack ka as the headquarters for isis. you mentioned they re moving into palmyra. we saw the loss of ramadi a few days ago. let s look at where we with in terms of geographic control. a couple of things to look at this over the next weeks and months. again we mentioned rack ka. this is anbar province sunni area of iraq. what you want to watch is are these lines of control solidify solidifying. in other words, does isis start to feel comfortable enough to spread the revolution into other countries because it has to worry less about fighting the battle in iraq. one other things to note. big gray area here big gray area here. isis is not going to own iraq because this is shia this is
technology and shared it quickly. i have a question for you about what the americans said. we will support efforts to ensure his safe recovery. there was a lot of video that accompanied that hostage taking. and video in the past with those executions of journalists and hostages has been very helpful in determining location and even identities. we don t even have anybody masked. there are people completely unmasked and crowing about this hostage grabbing. is that something the pentagon is talking about? is that something they re using right now to try to track that hostage s whereabouts? what we also know, typical operating procedure, bob knows this better than anybody, when a combat aircraft is in action, there are intelligence assets that watch that aircraft throughout a mission. they saw where it went down. they couldn t get to the pilot because isis very quickly, these fighters were on him and grabbed him. this is rack ka. the problem is, of course, there are no coalition personne