vehicles between 30 and 40 aircraft and an untold number of small arms like these displayed by taliban fighters in reason days. night vision, 50 caliber machine guns and helicopter gun ships. how many u.s. taxpayer funded military aircraft have been flown out of the country and what are you doing to get those back? i have received reports of a number of aircraft that were flown into uzbekistan and we are going to take that issue up at a later date. data compiled for afghan recon destruction in quarterly reports since 2009 warned of corruption and a hollow afghan national army imemployeing soldiers for years. the gao estimates the u.s. provided the afghan army nearly 600,000 weapons and 75,000 vehicles between 2003 and 2016. like the mujahideen who fought the ilyasova cents with u.s. provided weapons. the taliban which didn t have
hundreds of thousands of people could be killed. elsewhere in syria, a separate military standoff, twice in the past week russia has notified u.s. forces of its intent to enter the american controlled zone around a u.s. garrison used to train anti-isis fighters. the u.s. has warned russian forces not to move closer to an agreed line of demarcation. the u.s. military is prepared to back up its warning. last february u.s. helicopter gun ships and jets killed roughly 300 russian mercenaries as they approached another base in syria. the u.s. still has 2,000 troops in syria. bret: jennifer griffin, thank you. back here in the u.s., a massive wildfire near the california-oregon border keeps a stretch of interstate 5 closed through the weekend. california transportation department says that blaze began wednesday, it s still burning out of control along the highway. it s destroyed thousands of trees that could fall on to the roadway.
spokesman said the u.s. military aircraft bombing isis targets in syria had to change its route because russian warplanes were in the way. jennifer griffins is at the pentagon. what can you tell us about that? from land, air and sea, russian forces are making their presence felt in syria. today in a dramatic escalation, four russian warships in the caspian sea launched cruise missiles before striking isis controlled territory in eastern syria, an answer to u.s. criticism that the russian objective was not really to hit isis, but to bolster the assad regime. the russian defense ministry claims 26 cruise missiles were fired, 11 of them hitting targets. the russian president said today, quote, of course it is too early to sum up the results, but what has been done so far certainly deserves high praise. the russians moved helicopter gun ships to homes roughly 100
everything and we are seeing cannon fire coming from offshore and hitting certain locations and air strikes and hear helicopter gun ships and it is an intense fight. and the israeli defense forces warned people to evacuate their home in the northern part of the gaza strip. they warned people to evacuate their homes and get out of the area because fighting was expected to intense foy and at this point, molly, it certainly is. there is a lot of smoke and i smell the smoke and gun powder and tracers fired and it locks like they are honing in on one particular target. we are hearing and it is not confirmed that israeli special forces are on the ground and may be raiding a particular hams location. there are numberous rocket launches in and around the area including where we are right
we have heard missile strikes and rocket launches targeting israel and heard artillery fire from offshore and then on the israeli border treeps there. 155 millimeter cannons and tonight, molly, this is the first time we heard small arms fire on the ground along with helicopter gun ships. and we are so close to it, at one point, we believe that ground forces are moving up from the south and tracers are going over us. john, incredibly braver ary on your part and your kruchl we ll come back to you later on in the show. stay with us as much as you can. consider your safety. israeli prime freedom netanyahu will be appearing on fox news