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Asean Parliamentarians for Human Righs (APHR) urged South-East asia and the international community to take action to stop the Myanmar junta from executing four political prisoners.

Execution decisions to be made in accordance with the guidance that he provided. we could have accomplished our objectives through the use of overwhelming power in three months, not three years. >> ed: are we just bringing the fight to them? i wonder, is there a challenge for the trump administration. you can be winning and knocking out the leaders of isis but as we saw with the obama administration in 2012, they kept saying al qaeda is on the run and all of that and then al qaeda kept coming ba...

Perspective. at one point isis controlled an area the size of ohio. today it only controls a very small region primarily along the border of syria and iraq. 30,000 us-led airstrikes and the beefed-up presence on the ground. killing 70,000 jihadists, many in the military say donald trumps hands off approach is what is winning. instead of being politically correct, they say, the commander-in-chief has allowed top commanders to do what they do best which is kill the bad guys. >> the obama administr...

Deserves credit for increasing the tempo of the destruction of isis as they have been effective in defeating the islamic state. 5.3 million people liberated from isis control interest the months the trump administration has been in office. but while we should be proud of the gains they are, we shouldnt quite take a victory lap yet because isis is going to pop up in other countries in which they dont have strong government control. it will look for power vacuums and so, again, we should be very p...

>> kennedy: welcome back. president from claiming a major win for americans with his historic tax reform law. thats not also forget whats happening overseas. the defense department shows the terror network has been rapidly losing territory in the first 11 months since president trump took office. live at the pentagon with more. >> a top u.s. diplomat says isis has lost 90% of the territory it once held. half those losses come since president trump took office. critics say the rules of engagement...

President trump took office. critics say the rules of engagement during the obama administration, but the white house waiting weeks to pick targets. >> the obama administration micromanaged a war, and what the trump administration did, was allow execution decisions to be made in accordance with the guidance he provided. we could have accomplished our objectives through the use of all men whelming power in three months, not three years. >> today, the u.s. military says it less than a thousand ice...

To syria. >> isis has spread to africa and afghanistan, where suicide attacks in kabul killed ten people and claimed by isis, rick. >> rick: they are making progress, but it will never be over. >> dead is. former head of the military and said it should have ended much sooner. >> the obama administration micromanaged the war, and what the trump administration did was allow execution decisions to be made in accordance with the guidance that he provided. we could have accomplished our objectives th...

The remaining isa strongholds concentrated in an area along the syria and iraq border. isis at one point controlled area the size of ohio. while isis has been largely debated, continues to call its followers were on the world to conduct terror attacks during holidays. with a new message spreading up just today. a suicide attack in kabul on christmas with isis claiming this possibility. as part of the terror groups effort to expand its influence into africa and afghanistan. the u.s. ambassador wa...

Were live at the pentagon with us this morning. how close is isis to being completely destroyed in iraq and syria, lucas? >> a top u.s. dip mat has isis has lost 98% of the territory it held. half coming since president trump took office. critics of the rules of engagement during the obama administration say they were ownerous with the white house picking some targets. >> obama administration micromanaged the war. what the trump administration did was allow execution decisions to be made in acco...

The police controversies that led to the deaths of two black men in ferguson, missouri, and staten island last summer and the subsequent grand jury decisions not to indict the officers involved have put a big spotlight on police making life-and-death decisions in the blink of an eye. as a governor, i had more death penalty cases and execution decisions come across my desk in 10 1/2 years than any governor in arkansas history. but i had weeks, even months, to carefully review every page of the ca...