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The Atlantic A poor command climate can make women feel unsupported and alone. 6:30 AM ET Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty In 2012, I was deployed to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to serve alongside Green Berets and infantry soldiers. As a member of an all-female cultural-support team, I was trained to interact with Afghan women and children, something that is culturally inappropriate for men to do. At the border, we encountered mortar attacks, improvised explosive devices, and firefights. Even th...

Area where they have the oil and we are going to be protecting it and well be deciding what were going to do with it in the future. >> sandra: as president trump announces a permanent cease-fire in northern syria turkey and russia reaching an agreement to dispatch their troops along the border. filling the void left by the u.s. troop withdrawal. benjamin hall is reporting live from northern syria for us this morning. benjamin. >> hi, sandra. just in the last few hours weve been hearing reports o...

Stable or strategic move? >> i see them really buckling down pretty military forces the region, they pulled out diplomats were they needed to. remember arthel, they had to close a consulate in southern iraq last fall because of threats from iranian backed mortar attacks. they tried to secure u.s. personnel while the diplomat a military to try and wait this out. it is very interesting that we are hearing reports that iranian backed hezbollah is feeling the pinch. and they running a little short o...

>> infantry with the 10th mountain division. brian: how much action did you see? >> we had a fair amount of fire fights, mortar attacks, ieds. on a regular basis i was there for a year. brian: general, what do you know about his service? >> his service is not unusual for the very difficult period in iraq in 2003. alive and active 10th mountain division got called in the middle of it andrew and his unit. brian: you walked out for the people you saved and the way you served you got a commendation ...

After gaza militants launch a series of mortar attacks across the border. more on whats happening there straight ahead. plus there is this. >> nothing wrong with the government doing that. everything wrong with the government spying on a candidate of the opposition party. thats a watergate, spygate. >> sandra: strong words from rudy giuliani this weekend calling out the obama administration for spying on the trump campaign. our next guest served as f.b.i. assistant director and has been very cri...

Was, intense clashes, and in one area we saw, we were just on the outskirts of mosul. we saw about 600 people who had fled the areas of the city that the iraqi army managed to retake, but they saw the fighting that happened this morning, some of them were injured, and in mortar attacks. they decided they had to leave. so what were seeing is that, yes, isis has been driven out of falluj fallujah, ramadi, other iraqi cities but not giving up easily and putting up quite a fight, and as you mentione...

Iraqi forces expecting? what kind of resistance are they getting? >> reporter: thanks, craig. there has been a lot of progress since this offensive was announced yesterday morning. kurdish, iraqi, and iraqi federal police were able to take to the south and east of mosul but havent made a lot of progress because theyve basically been held up by mortar attacks and by suicide car bombings. this is kind of a holding power we have to get used to. this is how previous iraqi attacks on isis-held areas ...

Thats the most callous thing you can say to us who served, and especially to mr. khan, to say that, you know, if it would have been him, his son would be alive. thats just an awful thing to say. >> and josh, you were there that day. you heard the explosion and i know you havent met mr. khan or had a chance to speak to him. i just want you, if you could take a minute to just tell us what it was like there that day and, and what the feeling was about the heroism that was displayed that day. >> you...

>> im still -- im over here on tower three, still, you know, covering this area. to me, it looked like it hit, like, right around here. we had no cover for mortar attacks. i mean, even the buildings, im -- im surprised that one didnt collapse. another explosion hits right here. when i heard another "thoomp," i -- thats when i jumped off the tower, moved back and got somewhere right around here. and thats when the -- the mortar hit. and once that mortar hit, it just -- it was pitch black and dead...

>> im still -- im over here on tower three, still, you know, covering this area. to me, it looked like it hit, like, right around here. we had no cover for mortar attacks. i mean, even the buildings, im -- im surprised that one didnt collapse. another explosion hits right here. when i heard another "thoomp," i -- thats when i jumped off the tower, moved back and got somewhere right around here. and thats when the -- the mortar hit. and once that mortar hit, it just -- it was pitch black and dead...