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Ryan, i know youll continue to keep us up to date with this. please come back to us if you have any more information as this operation is ongoing in northwest syria. i now want to bring in bob baer who of course has been following this story with us. bob, in terms of the way youve been analyzing this for us really over the last few years since al baghdadi took the pulpit there in mosul and declared his caliphate, how significant would this be if they believed they at least know his location now ...

Al baghdadi has been in hiding for the past five years. ever since he stood in the great mosque in mosul, iraq in 2014 and proclaimed the isis caliphate. cnn pentagon reporter ryan brown has the latest from washington. and suffice it to say, ryan, these are the kinds of tips certainly that those special forces look for. what more do you know about the operation as its under way? >> reporter: well, very few details about the actual operation have become known at this time. of course thats not unt...

Detonated a suicide vest. president trump is expected to make actual an announcement regarding foreign policy in the next few hours. al baghdadi has been in hiding since 2014, when he stood, youre looking at him right there, at the great mosque in mos mosul, iraq, and announced a caliphate. its important you bring us the context from the border and whats gone on in the last couple weeks, in terms of u.s. foreign policy and how so much has changed on the ground? >> a radical couple of weeks, with...

Only lexus asks questions like these, because we believe the most amazing machines are inspired by you. experience the rewards of our curiosity. welcome back to cnn center in atlanta, where we continue to follow breaking news on the manhunt for isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi. sources tell cnn that al baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a u.s. military raid in northwest syria. a u.s. official says president donald trump is expected to make an announcement related to foreign policy in ...

Prisoner, possibly if that were to occur or eventual trial would have been a massive complication for the united states juridically but also for him in terms of being humiliated in that way. we saw bin laden was shot dead by special forces when they broke into the top floor of that villa, but it may be if youre hearing directly here these reports turn out to be correct that baghdadi chose to remove that whole part of the equation. i mean, obviously in a raid of this nature you have substantial w...

Russia. in iraq, isis desperately tries to hold its ground and the countrys second largest city of mos mosul. >> the senior commanders take us in in the calm before the final storm. >> their ambitions to build a caliphate crumbling as small pockets of militants are flushed out. >> the iraqi prime minister is declaring full vikt resaying war torn city is liberated from brutality and terrorism. >> in 2017, isis loses all of its major strongholds, but beyond the borders of iraq and syria, lone wolf...

The last hundred yards of isis. the group that once held iraq and syria down here to the last bullet, were told. there it is. run through the heart of mosul that marks the end of isis territory in iraq, really. between the iraqi special forces, victory, still just dozens of isis fighters still holding out. american air strikes hammer them. thats the intensity and proximity of the fighting here. the air strikes are called in right next to iraqi forces. they even feel the rubble landing in their f...

But more, if you look at how isis has always been an ideology built on its own sense of self, fact they had to accept loosing their capital, caliphate in iraq, they announced the caliphate, mosul such a key city to them, now thats gone. theyre taking a huge dent in their image and also now across the border facing their own declared capital of raqqah deeply under siege. reduced down there to a matter of 1.5 miles, 3 miles deep when i saw a map there just recently, so theyre massively under press...

Now, iraqi prime minister abadis announcement draws a line under the eight month brutal fight for the city of mosul and potentially also really the chapter, having its caliphate here in iraq. yes, they have many towns around the country still potentially -- big population center of mosul that was the heart of the ideology they had is now fallen and i think there are many iraqis who have been celebrating on the streets here who feel, frankly, enlightened because of it. >> nick, if mosul is the la...

President. and that it would be easy and that it would be done quickly. was he, and were you, republicans, naive about this? >> i wouldnt say naive. >> reporter: the senator indicated zealousness has become a big part of the equation. >> the issue is there were so many different ideas, even within our own republican conference, that trying to bring those ideas together has been difficult and i remain optimistic that we will find a way forward. >> reporter: but it remains quite unclear what that ...