it is a startling victory in terms of the speed. isis may have had little choice or chosen to give up sinjar. there were a number of dead, we re told, in that attack, at least over 100 on the side of isis. but the peshmerga moved in very quickly in just over 24 hours between the first moves and the push on down from the north into the city center itself. that was done by peshmerga and overwhelming in their number, thousands, frankly. it releases the question, what next? one of the key objectives being taking that town. thaf the strategic is taking the main highway that runs through sinjar. it goes between mosul in iraq and raqqa in syria. both vital isis strongholds. now the kurdish leader behind the peshmerga assault today said that taking sinjar bodes well for the future liberation of
we killed the target that we intended to kill, which is jihady john. killing him is making the world a better place. this news here as we are also getting word that the isis reign in at least one city is now over. this two-day war operation free sinjar bolstered by u.s. air power declared a success. the city no longer rule d by tht black isis flag because peshmerga troops are seen now raising a kurdish flag. i have jim sciutto and on the phone just outside of sinjar is nick peyton walsh. jim, first to you on this belief that the u.s. got this terrorist. what more do you know about the strike? they were filming him if for
photographs here. i think the issue here is he is essentially saying that if you supply weapons to a country that that seems to suggest some sort of involvement and we know that often times countries do supplies to different countries and doesn t mean military involvement. ben carson camp also said that the media needed to start doing homework. by the way, we did our homework. jim sciutto talked to two u.s. military sources at the pentagon and they say there s no evidence of china military actually being on the ground in syria. so there s that. next, jihadi john, the isis executioner responsible for these murders has likely been killed in an airstrike in raqqa. what kind of blow is this to the isis operation as a whole. also ahead, a u.s.-aided push to e destroy strongholds in iraq