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Zone. >> now lets take you to the heart of the battle against isis in certisyria. nick paton walsh is in the area. >> days ago, insurgents punched through the wall and nick was the first western journalist to get access. >> we are in the city walls of raqqah. the capital of isis self declared caliphate capital in the last final stand in syria and the middle east. the kurds and arabs control 200 meters inside of the old city. down that way, isis positioned. the forces here dont move around much i...

Communications. eavesdropping of people they talk to of people on the ground. they will look to confirming evidence. right now, they dont have it. this whole area of syria that we are talking about is extremely interesting for u.s. intelligence and u.s. military. lets put up a map for a minute. raqqah. this city, isis self declared capital, has been undergoing assault from the air and by fighters on the ground for several weeks. it is isolated. they have isolated some isis fighters in the city. ...

Critical and important upcoming offensive on raqqah. among the tension, the u.s. is stepping in and reassure and deterring role to assure the campaign against isis is allowed to proceed ahead. >> ryan browne, thank you. today is a special day. not my birthday. not your birthday. it is a little bull on wall street that turns eight years old. >> what are you getting him? >> we hope for a long life for this bull. if it wants to be the longest bull market of all time, it has to run four more years...

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Of course, they had years to prepare. the marines are thought to support that push. all of this comes as the u.s. publicly deployed about 100 u.s. army rangers to the syrian city of manbij. liberated from isis back in august. what is happening is a complicated picture. you are seeing syrian troops and russian allies moving in to close distance to the u.s. allies and turkey has their force in the region with a separate rebel group. not all the groups get along. the u.s. is bringing 100 troops to ...

It is similar to what the u.s. provided iraqi troops in assault on mosul. u.s. marines providing artillery. there are up to 4,000 isis fighters in raqqah. they had years to defend. build tunnels and booby traps and things of that nature. isis is expected to put up stiff resistance. this is critical. in the new deployment, it comes as additional 100 army rangers have gone to manbij in northern syria. that is turning into a complicated battle field. manbij was captured by americas local allies. yo...

Weeks. our reporter ryan browne joins us from washington. ryan, we were talking to ben wedeman an hour ago about the boots on the ground. tell us more about what the american role will be here. >> christine, good morning. as you said, an advisory role for u.s. troops in syria for some time now. advising americas local syrian and kurdish allies. this is a new contingent to provide artillery support. the local allies lack heavy weapons. they will give that support on the assault on raraqqah. isis ...