commanders concede could take months to drive isil out. as they move closer to the city center with thousands of civilians being said to be held as human shields. this as intelligence services with the latest on the leader al baghdadi. phil is south of mosul this morning. good morning, phil. good morning, john, these latest reports about abu al baghdadi s location come after militia groups have been incorporated into the paramilitary. they re responsible in the ongoing military operation to drive isis from territory west of mosul. and now, they say that is where they believe baghdadi is. they won t say how they know this but increasingly other
i really believe we only live once, and so you need to take an idea that you have and go for it. you have the opportunity to say, i ve been part of the creation of over 27,000 units of housing, and to replicate this across the entire african continent. just yesterday after a 90-minute pentagon briefing, president obama vowed the u.s. will destroy isis. even as we re relentless we have to be smart, targeting isil surgically, with precision. at the same time our partners on the ground are rooting isil out,
to accelerate isil s defeat. the reality is we re at war. that s how our troops feel about it. because they re taking the fight to isil every day. applying the might of the finest fighting force the world has ever known. in northern syria, local forces with our support are fighting along the line, engaging isil in the last remaining pocket of access into turkey. mean whi meanwhile, our fighting along forces and have recaptured important terrain most recently pushing isil out of a town and at least 900 square kilometers of surrounding territory. they re now focused on moving south to isolate isil s so-called capital of raqqah. with the ultimate objective of
arms. we re going to tell russia and iran assad s got to go and let the syrians pick their next leader. so you are for delaying going after assad for this point, basically say, okay, everyone s aligned on isis, let s get them all in. it s germany and japan. it s not that you don t fight the japanese. they want to do two things. they want to liberate their country from assad and they want to kick isil out. they re not radical islamists, they don t want to turn their daughters over to these guys. syrians won t accept leaving assad. i d have a fasphased approach. isil first, assad, germany, japan. i think we re missing the big
isil out and the man that murdered their families. the threat of isil without pressure on ah sawed. this is no chance of working. our troops could be bombed by russia airplanes and russia and iran and hesbollah will help protect ah sawed. we are not helping. and we have more on foreign policy to get to. one of the new s items is several russian planes getting to close to the uss ronald reagan and you have the united states sending a war ship to the south china sea because of chinese building up the islands in the contested area. dow still feel you can count on nato to stand up to russia? do we have partners we can trust? nato is no stronger than