last night it was carried out in eastern syria aimed at capturing a isis leader and his wife. it was supposed to be a snatch and grab. but during the raid he was killed. 12 other enemy fighters were also killed in this mission. no u.s. personnel were killed however. umm sayyaf was captured. u.s. forces freed a young yazidi woman who was being held as a slave. i was told by one official that umm sayyaf may have been involved in a human trafficking leader. he was involved in the military, but also had a senior role in overseaing isis oil and gas operations. this is significant. i know you were honing in on this. i m told it is significant because oil and gas is a key source of revenue. this is part of starving the
capture, not kill him. so they wanted to just kill him, they would have sent an f-16 to the compound he was and put a bomb on him but they were willing to send multiple american special operations forces to capture him. didn t work out that way, unfortunately, but the fact this individual would have information intelligence he could actually use to break let s say the financial backbone of this organization would be important. so, for example, killing one fighter or one spiritual mirror in the organization would put the organization back a little bit. but capturing their head accountant. that person would want to know. it looks like this person, unfortunately, he s dead now. i wonder if there s other things we learned in the context of the u.s. official announcement of this raid about how the united states is in fact operating in iraq and syria. well, one of the issues that was actually quite interesting when you read the relatively terse statement was that the united states was wo
breaking news this hour that u.s. special forces have carried out a raid inside of syria. flying into eastern syria by helicopter to kill a top isis commander. the department of defense says he was involved in isis military matters. its finances and he helped direct the oil and gas operations. special forces xancapturing his wife. we have a report from the pentagon saying he was killed when he engaged u.s. forces as they tried to capture him in eastern syria last night and that u.s. forces managed to capture his wife. they say that she was suspect she s a member of isis and that she quote may have been complicit it what appears to
this is humira at work all right. breaking news this hour. that u.s. special forces have carried out a raid inside of syria flying into eastern syria to kill a top isis commander. that word is coming from the u.s. defense department. we are working to get more information on the story to find out what happened there. we will bring you all the additional details on that raid as they become available. again, that word breaking just this hour from the u.s. defense department over a raid carried out inside of syria. while we work on gathering more information, let s catch up on the headlines making news this morning. beginning with the many articles about the fallout since george stephanopoulos apologized for not disclosing donations to the
general, i guess if we kwd takecould take a bigger picture look at this. assess for us what the strength and position of isis was before this happened right now. so much talk last year about how isis was on the march. its influence and presence was spreading throughout the middle east. in the year sense then, what has happened? what s the state of isis as we digest this story? under secretary carter s leadership, the u.s. special forces in particular and also u.s. naval and air force power have significantly danlmaged this organization. the significance to this raid is number one, that is terrific intelligence to take he wasn t the salient figure but they had him under surveillance long enough to plan and carry out a flawless operation. so it s a signal again to isis, they re not safe anywhere. not only from a smart bomb off a naval fighter jet but also from