Inside Isis News Today

5 p.m. saturday evening, eight american helicopters were carrying as many as 100 u.s. special operations forces. iraq and flew for 70 minutes across syria. the pilots flew low to avoid detection but came under fire during the flight returning fire as they went. their destination was a compound in western syria. according to president trump, the area had been under surveillance for a few weeks. we learned today an informant inside isis told the kurdish led syrian democratic forces that the elusiv...

And video from the raid. >> bill: what a story, jennifer griffin, thank you. team fox coverage continues. fox news can confirm that the agent inside the operation who informed u.s. special ops was living inside the compound. benjamin hall continues the coverage, live in northern syria. benjamin, hello. >> good evening from syria. we had a long interview with general mazloum abdi today, commander of the stf. he made it very clear that the raid would not have been possible without the help of the ...

Security analyst evelyn farkas, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense. and larry pfeiffer, also here. he is the director of the hayden center at george mason university and a former senior director of the white house situation room. larry also served as a chief of staff to the cia. the evelyn, i want to start with you. i just asked matt this, i think its worst asking you again, the big concern is that these isis fighters and the families, as mat. was just describing, will escape and t...

Dead hands. and thats going to be a very terrible fight. because were talking about, like i said, hardened jihadis that arent exactly going to sit by and become pawns in a great power game between the kurds and the turks. so, al hol refugee camp and all these other points where isis fighters are holed up and their fall lis, about 48,000 women and children who are also hardened idealog idealogues, they are also in northern syria and they are also ready to escape and rekoconstit. where are they go...

In the presidents ear and have him change his mind on this, or is it already too late? is there a way to mitt game sig of the con consequences going forward? >> theres potential to mitigate. weve seen it happen in the past where he has reversed course or he has softened his language, which has allowed the defense department, state department, to then begin to take actions to -- to help the situation. >> what do we do in the future, evelyn, when we need help again fighting against isis? >> well, ...

We are out of there. weve been out of there for die. we are taking some of the most dangerous isis fighters out. were taking them out and putting them in different locations where its secure. if the kurds dont watch, then turkeys going to watch, because they dont want those people out anymore than we do. >> welcome back. that is president trump just about an hour ago, alleging that isis prisoners are secure, despite air strikes targeting the kurdish forces guarding those prisoners. this just thr...

Iraq, where this government and where other governments around the region are going to be loathe to accept still more, hundreds of thousands of refu e refugees, a renewal of the same scourge of reewe gees we saw in 2015 that spilled all the way over into europe and upended politics there, so, its just -- as bekeep seeing with syria, its grownhogs day. its just tragedy upon tragedy, the same over and over again and now were seeing it again, but starting with that, as you mentioned, that betrayal ...

U.s. in the fight against isis. turkey considers them both terrorists. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, including some of the presidents staunchest supporters are denouncing the dramatic policy shift and warning of an isis resurgence. and with air strikes already under way, it is too late to reverse course. joining me now, nbc news foreign correspondent matt burt bradley. and matt, can you tell us whats happening there on the ground? >> well, the latest, katy, you mentioned that the air str...

Exactly what matt described, its actually going to be worse, because the kurdish fighters are going to abandon their posts guarding those hardened terrorists and their kind of hardened families, as well, and theyre going to go and defend their own turf, their own territory, their own people, their own towns. theyre not going to care what happens with the isis fighters at that point, because theyre fighting for their lives. so, the isis people will -- they will escape, we know that. and they will...

One that would not put -- or heighte heighten the risk of isis fighters escaping? >> absolutely. you know, he should be using the forces he has, you know, at his fingertips. he should be using his diplomats, he should be using the u.s. military and defense officials. we should be having a full frontal assault, not with weapons, but with words, to bring people together, bring them to the table. clearly, this administration has failed in not doing that and allows turkey to proceed as they have. >>...