crusade. now it appears lucas kinney is on his own terror crusade. this is a guy who had every advantage and still ended up with al qaeda, in syria. someone who has appeared to sear yoo because he believes it was his religious due toy to fight jihad. reporter: his family divorced years ago. he attended the best schools. one relative said lucas was a rock and roller who once played in band called hannah s got herpies. ooet it appearances lucas kinney is using those performance skills and experts warn he could exploit his familiarity. some of these recruits are beinging suicide bombers ready to give up their lives. they could be sent back to the west, that they could be trained inside syria by al qaeda. right now the group s focus is
stronghold. they are seeing more and more difficulty of getting their fighters into northern syria. reporter: despite pure fighters a classified intelligence assessment bleakly concludes isis is as strong as it was a year ago when airstrikes began. but it is no longer making huge advances on the ground. the number of fighters down slightly to 20,000 to 30,000. the pentagon says that is progress. but, in iraq even as the u.s. struck a facility making vehicle-borne bombs, the defense intelligence agency has its own grim assessment. one official saying quote, the situation between iraq between iraqi security forces and isil is in stalemate. after nearly 6,000 airstrikes and a year in bombing in sear yoo and iraq fundamental questions of whether the strategy will ever be successful. that was barbara starr
sure that it s not helping the extremists if the united states as senator graham said, quote/unquote upgrades the opposition. thanks for having me on. it s imperative of the united states to engage in strong diplomatic efforts with the syrian opposition. to talk to them on a regular basis and that s been a big push, especially by our state department and they ve done a terrific job. we need to identify moderate opposition groupsing that come together and become more cohesive and oppose the regime of bashar al assad. we re not blind to the fact that there s not trifs elements in sear yoo but we believe at the end of the day the syrian people will reject the extremics and adopt a process that gets them to a new political landscape in their country that does not involve bashar al assad. john kerry and hague rl seag
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