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Donald trump, now being betrayed by his administration. david ignatius said, and davids been over in syria and knows so much about the battle against isis. president trump is about to make pay major consequential mistake. hes informing that syrian/kurdish allies that u.s. is withdrawing from positions on the border abandoning security mechanism to allow an invasion by turkish forces. of course this is after the united states had them move some of their heavy equipment off the border in an act of...

Equation. >> we know there are 70,000 members, women and children, beingom held in this camp and 200,000 foreign fight eers bein held in prisons. these are the most committed of the isis c members who survived thebe caliphate. mostly picked up in the last couple of months of the caliphate mean iing they surviv, year, under the rule of this group. this is the nucleus of where we believe the resurgence of isis is going to come from and the thought these people could be let go or under control of t...

To sue for some sort of peace for turkey or reach out to the russians or reach out to the syrian government. >> what is behind the u.s.s decision in all of this, especially considering what you just laid out with the kurds feeling as if theyve been completely betrayed? >> this is a president trump decision. this was not popular at the pentagon. this was certainly not popular among u.s. special forces. i know these u.s. special operations forces quite well. ive spent time with them in this pocket...

Political fate as well. one of his top defenders in the senate blasted the presidents dereliction of duties and called out one of the presidents lies. >> isis is not defeated, my friend. the biggest lie being told by the administration, that isis is defeated. the caliphate destroyed, but there are thousands of fighters -- >> does this -- >> -- this impulsive decision by the president has undone all the gains we have made, thrown the region into further chaos, iran is licking their chops. if im a...

Their leader has sworn to fight on in a global jihad, promising to bring the fight to the west. so is the islamic state really dead? join me as i trace the rise and fall of isis. ♪ ive covered isis from the beginning, as the militant army rolled through much of iraq and syria, conquering a vast territory and establishing its caliphate. but by the spring of 2019, the tables had turned. isis was losing. i came back to witness the end. only a few thousand of the most hard-core militants were le...

After five brutal years, the caliphate has been defeated. the world is rid of the islamic state. or is it? the man who started it all, abu bakr al bagdadi, has sworn to fight on, to take the fight to the west. and its not an idle threat. paris, london, berlin, brussels, san bernardino. cities around the world have been targeted. hundreds of people have been killed. as devastating as the terror attacks are, isis may have left an even more dangerous legacy. tens of thousands of foreign fighters an...

Publicity seemed limitless. one isis member who became a household name was a british citizen dubbed jihadi john. jihadi john, whose real name was mohammed mwazi, was a pretty criminal back home who became an isis executioner. he was responsible for torturing and beheading 24 foreign hostages including four americans. he taunted president obama. >> any temattempt by you, obamao deny the muslims their rights of living in safety under the islamic caliphate, will result in the bloodshed of your peo...

Disillusioned. >> a lot of muslims see weakness and failure and loss. they felt in their heads, if only we would establish the caliphate, everything else would fall into place and we would live happily ever after. >> they destroyed their passports to show their commitment to the caliphate. for them, there was no going back. i met one of those men, a former jihadist, back in manhattan while he was in federal custody. mo went to columbia university and had what can only be described as a normal up...

According to the islamic states own propaganda, this was gods will foretold by the prophet mohammed himself. naive believes flocked to be part of it. they were convinced isis would herald a new islamic golden age and create a pure state for muslims, the caliphate. ♪ oh, my brothers, jihad is the way ♪ i understood the desire to return to islams glorious past. isis promised to restore muslim pride and prestige. >> it means power after powerlessness. it means honor and dignity after failure. >...

This situation, that you regret youre here? >> i regret the whole thing. i regret the ideology. i regret ever coming here. i regret ever even going online. i regret everything. >> i left wondering how much hoda is changing her story because she wants to get out of this prison camp. from what ive seen, women were the backbone of isis, the ones who held the group together and made some of its worst atrocities possible. but why join in the first place? next, the false promises that lured recruits...