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Our assistance and artillery support but they have been the ones on the ground engaging in hard-fought combat victories. >> julie: rubio talks about turkeys role in convincing the u.s. the leave syria. listen. >> the turks have spent weeks and months trying to get us to abandon the kurds. they see them as a threat. they think the kurds want to take over southern turkey and northern syria and create their own country and want them wiped out and they want us to stop partnering with them. theyve be...

Remains unchanged. we continue our normal operations including observation posts in the border region to address the security concerns of our nato ally turkey. we remain committed to working with our partners on the ground to ensure an enduring defeat of isis. any reports indicating a change in the u.s. position with respect to these efforts is false and designed to sow confusion and chaos, except that was saturday and now its wednesday and it is not false. what the president wants is all troops...

Now, these two senior defense officials say the white house will ultimately announce this as early as today. u.s. military confirming that there are 503 u.s. troops in syria. even though defense officials acknowledge having more than 2,000 there at times. the u.s. military mission there has been to defeat isis but troops have also been used for a range of other reasons. everything from stabilizing efforts in recent weeks. secretary mattis announced observation posts near the turkish border earli...

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>> allahu akbar. >> reporter: his parents seem stoic together, proud but in pain. but later as his mother shows us ahmeds clothes she breaks down. in the room next door his father shows us his photos. tears he cant cry in front of his wife. they did everything together. a father-son team documenting their nations pain. now directly a part of it. the sluggish pace of life as we drive through idlib province seems to belie the looming violence. its the last remaining main rebel stronghold. turkey, ...

Ahmads clothes she breaks down. in the room next door his father shows us his photos. tears he cant cry in front of his wife. they did everything together. a father-son team documenting their nations pain. now directly a part of it. the sluggish summer pace of life as we drive through idlib province seems to belie the looming violence. its the last remaining main rebel stronghold. turkey, russia, and iran have been negotiating to ostensibly come to some sort of agreement, to prevent a total mass...

Drive to the nuclear site. arriving at punggye-ri was surreal. the buildings were log cabins, almost like a summer camp. definitely not what i expected. we had to carry our gear and hike for what felt like ages up steep ravines to get to observation posts built specifically for us. we visited tunnel after tunnel. the same tunnels north korea has used to conduct six nuclear tests since 2006. all of them full of explosives. football sized bags strung with wires. we even had lunch provided by the n...

The story was unlike any other. 18 trips to north korea, and this country still keeps me guessing. for more than 24 hours, we didnt even know if our trip to the nuclear site would happen. the rhetoric with the u.s. was really heating up. only when we boarded the bus did we know it was a go. we rode for more than 12 hours on a north korean luxury train. it was curb real. a ten -- surreal. a ten-course banquet with all the blinds closed and strict orders not to film outside. we also couldnt drive ...

To three different observation posts that were built for us. we hiked up the side of the ravine to witness basically north korea blow them up. we didnt have any nuclear weapons experts in our group. there were only journalists. so we cant verify how significant these explosions were. but we did see the entrance to the tunnel completely blocked off. we also saw probably nine buildings on-site only blown up completely that used to house the control center, the barracks for the officers on site. ju...

Fell short, causing no damage. israel then retaliated with the biggest show of force in syria, since the end of the yom kippur war in 1973. israeli fighter jets destroyed the launcher used by the iranians in the rocket attack earlier and israel says its military decimated irans military infrastructure in syria. iranian intel and logistics facilities, observation posts, weapons warehouse at damascus international airport, a war monitoring group says 23 people were killed, among them 18 foreigners...