Behinds the 9 11 attacks and where it stands today. Good to have you with us this week. President obama is taking his iraq strategy to the american people. Ahead of wednesdays speech the president indicated there would be limit to the involvement in the fight against the Islamic State group. This will not be an announcement about u. S. Ground troops, its not the equivalent of the iraq war. More on the president s comments in a moment, but first the expanding military campaign in iraq. This week the u. S. Launched broadened air strikes. The goal was to support Security Forces near the haditha and mosul dams. The deputy secretary said the Iraqi Government requested the sites. Its the first time the u. S. Hit targets in the Anbar Province during the current conflict. Jane arraf reports. Reporter the air strikes are part of a widening campaign. We are told they hit tarts between haed eetha and al qaim. They are close to the border as the u. S. Has targeted. That area is key to defeating or
In the aisle of the market. You see people huddled together you see groceries scattered on the floor. All this unfolding just hours before police stormed that market and killed coulibaly. Lets get some perspective on these new images. We have chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto joining us now from paris. Jim, youve seen the images. Were still trying to get some access to them. But what stands out to you when you look at them . Reporter theyre harrowing images from inside this kosher market in the very midst of the attack in what would be an otherwise mundane scene, an image of a small Little Grocery store. But you see the fear playing out in those images. You mentioned a stroller abandoned. There was a child hiding with some of the other people who were in the store at the time of the attack in a refrigerated room downstairs, possible it belonged to his parents. Not clear. But also you have a moment there where some of the hostages who survived are in one aisle, because o
President Joe Biden reassured the world in July 2021, during the withdrawal from Afghanistan, that the United States is "confident" it could prevent the Middle Eastern country from becoming a base from which terror groups could flourish, but a year later, a drone stroke revealed al Qaeda s foothold.