Deployed in this fight . The best dancer were trying to move destroy isis under very three specific objectives to prevent attacks against United States and our direct interest abroad, to control Populated Areas to recruit foreign fighters and to protect the sovereignty of u. S. Partners against tyson is. The third question is the most complicated. How to read defeat isis . How to read degrade this threat enough of what i just enumerated . It will necessarily entail coercive and on course of tools. The use of military power is just one tool to be integrated with the status of others of multilateral and bilateral diplomacy. Perhaps the degree of success is the administrations ability to mobilize a is a ticket coalition. There are participating in the air strikes a and responding to the humanitarian catastrophe. The use of military force is necessary but not sufficient the draft language in my view was carefully tailored strategy. And also the evidence of what is looking so far. We have s
A senior come mab manageder of the alnusra front has been killed in syria. He died in a Government Air strike in the city of idlib on thursday. He was a veteran alqaeda leader. Zana hoda reports from lebanon. Reporter this man was alnusra fronts second in command. His death comes at a critical time for the organization. There have been reports that syrias alqaeda branch has been asked to put links with the organization, and become a purely syrian force so it can receive funds and weapons. This individual use was reportedly filmed in aleppo in december. It emerged after they announced his death. He was fighting for alqaeda in afghanistan and iraq as well. And he was among the socalled hard liners. They were the hard liner, extremist, proalqaeda regular of alnusra, with which is the local manifestation of alqaeda supposedly that have been made against the offer to take a different course. Alnusra has been can requested via many channels and via many external forces regional and internati
For some mexican residents after the arrest of the head of a deadly cartel. And two decades after an historic United States agreement to improve the lives of women, where progress on many fronts has stalled and even gotten worse. Good evening and well coto Al Jazeera America im steph. The quest to end the bloody conflict in south sudan is in doubt tonight. Peace negotiations between the countrys two warring parties have fail. Today talks in ethiopia were suspended indefinitely with no future meetings scheduled. The south sudan president and rebel leader had been discussing a power sharing deal since monday. Civil war erupted in south sudan in december 2013. Since then more than 10,000 people have been killed another 1. 5 million displaced. Catherine soi has the latest. Reporter the talks have been as long winded and difficult as they have been intense. 13 months of negotiations have ended in a stalemate. The president and rebel leader held several direct talks this week. Their position
A Senior Commander of the alqaedaed link rebel group us in are front has been killed in syria, abu hammam alshami died in an air strike in the city of idlib on thursday. He held the title of general military commander for the alnusra front. Reporter his death comes at a critical time for the organization. There have been reports that the alqaeda branch has been asked to cut links with the organization and become a purity syrian force so it can receive funds and weapons. This video was reportedly filmed in apep low in december. It emerged after alnusra announced his death. He was also fighting for alqaeda in afghanistan and iraq and analysts say he was among the socalled hard liners. They were the hard liner extremist proalqaeda segment of alnusra that have been against the offer made to alnusra in recent times to take a different course than it is now. Alnusra has been asked by many via many channels and by many external forces regional and international that it has to decide. A cartel
The president. We begin this news hour at the United Nations in something we dont see every day the Security Council has agreed in a draft resolution condemning chlorine attacks in syria but there were heated exchanges before the agreement was reached. Our diplomatic editor james bays reports from u. N. Headquarters. A rare moment, a new Security Council resolution on syria is passed condemning chlorine attacks and promising to take action if they continue. China and russia supported it. Only venezuela abstained. The resolution does not say which side was responsible for the chlorine attacks, but for some there was no doubt. Lets ask ourselves who has helicopters in syria . Certainly not the opposition. Only the regime does. Weve seen them use helicopters in countless other attacks on innocent assyrians in assyrian with barrel bombs. That led to a stormy row. Russia said that the opce report said that perhaps the bombs went off at the time that the helicopters went off in the area. The