Encircle Raqqa News Today

To dip into foreign policy. when something is going well -- here youve seen him with one of the most important characters he has to deal with in the closing chapter. he said nobody tougher against isis than he would be. president erdogan has said quite clearly that he has a problem with the current u.s. strategy to defeat sis because theyre trying to encircle raqqa, but also some syrian rebels. those syrian kurds turkey considers to be allied with a group inside turkey and they have a problem wi...

Power. back to you. >> shannon: also can you tell us anything what were expecting from the talks between secretary mattis and turkish counterpart at the pentagon this morning? >> this is a very important meeting here at the pentagon this morning at 11:45 eastern. turkey is a nato ally and the u.s. military uses a turkish air base not far from syria to strike against isis. we expect the move to raqqa to rack up on april 16th. the looming question ahead of the talks at the pentagon is how publicly...

The u.s. military plans to use syrian kurdish fighters to encircle raqqa before a syrian arab force enters the city. all of that will be discussed today at the pentagon. >> shannon: big, busy important day there. thank you very much, jennifer. >> bill: there are reports of internal fighting in the west wing of the white house. steve bannon facing questions about his future after the president said the following to the "new york post" quote, i like steve but you have to remember he was not involv...

Local fighters two days ago on the ground in northern syria. we just received a statement. the incident occurred 30 miles west of raqqa where the u.s. military airlifted hundreds of local fighters last month along with some u.s. military advisors. central command says the coalition jet was given the wrong coordinates by their partner forces a mix of kurdish and arab fighters known as the syrian democratic forces. the u.s.-backed fighters in syria are supported by a u.s. marine corps artillery ba...