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>> bill neely, it sounds as if the situation has deteriorated fairly quickly. >> reporter: yeah, very quickly indeed and youve now got turkish troops or turkish-led troops facing president assads forces. and dont forget, these are not regular turkish troops. these are turkish militias. theyre, in fact, the old free syria army, in other words, rebels in a new uniform. and theyre islamists, many of them. we saw very disturbing video yesterday craig of kurdish prisoners being executed by one of the...

Breaking news out of iraq tonight. militants believed to be isis extremist fighters taking more territory regaining control of the refinery in baijii, and gaining ground in parts of the kurdish north. arwa damon witnessed the fighting there. >> reporter: the battle lines drawn but for over a week, not crossed. then came the isis assaults. they came at us from three directions, colonel ahmed tells us. the battle lasted for six hours. in the distance, an iraqi iraqi military vehicle commandeered b...

The lions share is located in foreign targets. you see a sliver that has a revolutionary ideology that says the rest of the guys can fight for baghdad. were going to fight to spread this battle overseas. youve got to collect intelligence on those guys because theyll be training kids from minneapolis or new york. to my mind, thats part of what these 300 americans will be doing there, trying to figure out if theres a foreign fighter faction weve got to go after. >> go ahead. >> if i can pile on to...

Were in jordan. soon going to be fifting infig jordan. isis declared a chapter in jordan. islamists and jihadists dont believe in at rangement, league of nations and dont believe in the united nations. they have defined the islamic community, the oma as a political block, not just a religious block. a political identity. they believe in forcibly uniting, if it is, by sort of, means of di policemplomacy, or muslims across the world, the jihadist terrorists from the sunni background would exclude ...

What we have with the isf is, you have got a -- whole host of character issues. you have the wrong people in the wrong locations for the wrong reasons. albeit, maliki would say for all the right reasons. i would argue that within the isf, they probably have a number of fighters and number of very good leaders at significant positions. but you end up with, kni five o cam bat ineffective. the reason we are there. so we can give maliki some time. as phil indicated. the broader concern is not only t...

Digging deeper with counter-terrorism analyst phillip mudd, a long serving veteran of the fbi and cia, and retired army major general james spider mark. james, you say the u.s. should be less on getting back territory and more on leadership positions in isis. and whether or not they have safe havens. >> i think thats true. i followed these guys for 25 years. you follow them in somalia and yemen, you start to learn lessons. theyre coming over the barricades, boston or new york or chicago, two thi...

From muqtada al sadr to nuri al malaki, its time for you to go. the other message for isis fighters if you come near our shrines, were going to take you on. a double message. the message from the top religious cleric in the country as we dont want militias. we want everyone fighting in it the army. but as we all know, the army here has completely failed to fight in a cohesive way. the real issue is that these militias could be unleashed if sectarian violence kicks off. thats a real danger. thats...

So, the process we are talking about, it is not one that really seems to be designed to actually deal with that real immediate threat that is right now, andersen. >> arwa, in terms of military folks you are talking about, you are on the kurdish side up in the north. how much support is there for the idea of american advisers coming? >> well it really depends on who you are talking to. there is a lot of wariness when it comes to u.s. involvement because of the american time of in iraq. in the wor...

Syria, iraq. >> focus should be significant. if you are sitting in the chair i sat in. you are not worried about some iraqi kid to explode a time bomb in times square. you worry about foreign kids. inspired to go overseas. a video. i used to talk to kids. 17-year-old, sees a video of a child killed in baghdad. very emotionally involved. what you have got to do is look for the slivers of the organizations. and isis. >> first american suicide bomber was for the organization in somalia. >> american...

Ground in the kurdish north. >> reporter: the battle lines drawn but for over a week not crossed. then came the isis assault. they came at us from three directions, colonel ahmed tells us, the battle lasted for six hours. in the distance, an iraqi military vehicle commandeered by isis, the intersection is strategic. saddam husseins hometown of tikrit in that direction, to the north, kirkuk, and iraqi kurdistan to the east and then to the south. a two-hour drive, a straight shot to the capital. >...