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The u.s. hopes the ypg will soon move from defense o to offense taking the fight to the stronghold in raqqa. but in. bases across the front lines, the fighters were lightly armed, poorly quipped and exhausted by months of fighting. and senior commander knows the battles ahead will be even tougher. >> can you take raqqa without heavier weapons from the coalition. >> translator: the weapons we have are not high quality. for this it campaign, well need new heavy weapons. >> the most important they ...

And and senior commander knows battles ahead will be tougher. can you take raqqah without heavier weapons from the coalition? >> translator: weapons we have are not high quality for this campaign. well need new, heavy weapons. >> reporter: the most important weapon they do have but dont want to talk about is this device, which help the ypg get exact coordinates for enemy positions. those coordinates are sent to a joint u.s. kurdish operations room, and minutes later fighter jets come screaming i...

Fight. and senior commander la wand knows the battles ahead will be even tougher. >> can you take raqqa without heavier weapons from the coalition? >> translator: the weapons we have are not high-quality. so this campaign will need new, heavy weapons. >> the most important weapon they do have but dont want to talk about is this device, which helps the ypg get exact coordinates for enemy positions. those coordinates are sent to a joint u.s. kurdish operations room and minutes later, fighter jets ...

Move from defense to offense, taking the fight to isis stronghold in raqqa but at makeshift bases across the front line the ones we saw were lightly armed, poorly equipped, and exhausted from months of fighting. senior commander knows the battles ahead will be even tougher. can you take raqqa without heavier weapons from the coalition? >> translator: the weapons we have are not high quality for this campaign, we will need new, heavy weapons. >> reporter: the most important weapon they do have bu...

Insurgents there, multiple u.s. officials say hospitals are not targets to ever be hit. hospitals, schools and mosques are completely off the list not to be hit. this investigation may go on for some time. brianna. >> all right. barbara starr, thanks so much. i want to bring back our experts phil mudd and bob behr to talk about this. bob, you heard barbaras report there. it seemed as if there was some information about this being a hospital that certainly for days some u.s. authorities knew of. ...

The hospital have whats called a safe box. they should have the coordinates of all hospitals and targets that are off limits. why that system didnt work we have to wait to find out. but if that plane did attack and it knew it was a hospital, thats a war crime. >> so its essentially geotagged as these airplanes are flying so that they can avoid these certain areas and they are knowingly off limits, right? >> yeah. theres even a name. i think its called falcon view, but somebody may correct me on ...

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That said, weve never had such a sort of targeted attack. i mean the amount of ordinates that was dropped on the single hospital structure in a compound not having any of the other buildings touched, the fact we had warned u.s. officials and afghan officials about the location of the hospital, been there for four years, treated tens of thousands of patients every year it was a known structure. for us thats the shock given the amount of transparency we had in terms of what we were doing, who we w...

Really difficult challenges, theyre under bombardment in yemen today in many locations and in other places in syria, as well. that said, weve never had such a sort of targeted attack. i mean the amount of ordinates that was dropped on the single hospital structure in a compound not having any of the other buildings touched, the fact we had warned u.s. officials and afghan officials about the location of the hospital, been there for four years, treated tens of thousands of patients every year it ...

This horror and thats going to create doubt throughout the system. its amazing the number of patients that were serviced in this hospital. 21,000 people serviced over time in this hospital. >> why would anyone in afghanistan want to hit this hospital? >> the bloody, horrible truth is that in war, and we have seen it in syria, afghanistan, previous wars like bosnia, that attacking hospitals or hospitals marked with big red crosses sometimes become places where the enemy hides and strikes from. so...