civil, military and afghan international approach to security, governance and development. so-called shaping operations including a high tempo of targeted special forces operations have been ongoing for some months. president karzai and his ministers conducted shura councils and other political initiatives focused on increasing the sense of inclusivity and transparency in the province, elements that are stressed by president karzai. in the months ahead, we ll see an additional u.s. brigade from the great 101st airborne division, deployed into the districts around kandahar city where it will operate together with an additional afghan army brigade. we ll see the introduction of additional afghan police and u.s. military police, to secure the city itself. along with other u.s. forces and civilians who will work together with the canadian reinstruction
on a strong, integrated civil military and afghan international approach to security governance and development. so-called shaping operations including a high tempo of targeted special forces operations have been ongoing for some months. president karzai and his ministers have also conducted counsels and a number of other political initiatives focused on increasing the sense of inclue sievety and transparency in the progress. they have been stressed by president karzai. in the months ahead, we ll see an additional u.s. brigade from the great 101st airborne division and it will operate together with an additional afghan army brigade. the introduction of u.s. military police to secure the city itself, along with other u.s. forces and civilians who will work together with the impressive provincial
have gotten closer and cooperated operationally in a way that we hadn t really seen i think in a significant way before 2007, 2006. has that changed your challenge and the challenges you present to your counterparts? where it actually has been helpful is that as pakistans a seen these bombings on its own territory, it clearly has seen a greater incentive to go after these guys. and so the pakistanis have sent a number of brigades to the western part of the country and frankly, 18 months ago, i wouldn t have believed that they would be active in south waziristan and swat and these other places. what about in terms of the things you need to do up in that area? i know it s a sensitive subject. but there are special forces operations, the drone operations, do you need more of that? i think we re doing what we need i would just say we re
u.s. officials say the troops traveled from northern iraq in black hawk helicopters and osprey aircraft like these on your screen. it is just the second time u.s. led special forces operations carried out a mission in isis-controlled territory in syria. they tell us gunfire was exchanged as well as hand to hand fighting. not much is known about abu sayyaf. he was personally close to the isis leader. one analyst we spoke to described him as like al capone s accountant. he s significant with a lot of information, but he will be replaced. i think the most significant thing here was the symbolism that u.s. special operations forces went into the isis heartland, grabbed someone, his wife killed over militants on