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It isa outside source by showing you this. It is a Statement Released by the white house on syria. In this statement, you will find the white house saying that Bashar Al Assad is, if he conducts another chemical weapons attack he and his military will pay a heavy price. The use of the word another is significant, thatis the word another is significant, that is a reference to a Chemical Attack which took place in april in syria. Over 80 people lost their lives in an attack in a town called khan s...

It isa outside source by showing you this. It is a Statement Released by the white house on syria. In this statement, you will find the white house saying that Bashar Al Assad is, if he conducts another chemical weapons attack he and his military will pay a heavy price. The use of the word another is significant, thatis the word another is significant, that is a reference to a Chemical Attack which took place in april in syria. Over 80 people lost their lives in an attack in a town called khan s...

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Take? >> i dont know. i predicted that. im not too good at the predictions. i predicted it would take about six months to take mosul. it took just shy of nine months, a few days shy of nine months. i wont guess on raqqa. >> general, thank you so much for your service. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. >> lets go to our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh. he recently was in mosul. hes now in irbil. what were the conditions like? nick, what did you see? >> this mo...

Our interest is to make sure that that doesnt happen. that is why we attacked the forces of assad, who are hitting our allies on the ground, who are the kurds, and there are the syrian rebels, who together with the kurds, are closing in on raqqa. our objective, you were asking earlier, what is our objective in the region. it is simple. we dont want to see assad have a puppet regime which would be run by iran and russia, and control of all of syria. we dont want them to inherit the isis territory...

Now i see that we are shooting planes down from a government that is also fighting isis that is representing the shiites. so is the main threat in syrials the assad regime, or is it isis? sincerely, i dont know., >> it is like the last year of the second world war. we are all fighting the nazis, but we know they are finished. a lot of maneuvering in the last year was to try to figure out what it would look like after the nazis. now, the main enemy is about to be driven out of mosul, iraq, will b...

That that doesnt happen. that is why we attacked the forces of assad, who are hitting our allies on the ground, who are the kurds, and there are the syrian rebels, who together with the kurds, are closing in on raqqa. our objective, you were asking earlier, what is our objective in the region. it is simple. we dont want to see assad have a puppet regime which would be run by iran and russia, and control of all of syria. we dont want them to inherit the isis territory. we would like to see that h...

That doesnt happen. that is why we attack the forces of assad, who are hitting our allies on the ground, who are the kurds, and there are the syrian rebels, who together with the kurds are closing in on raqqa. our objective, you were asking earlier, what is our objective in the region. it is simple. we dont want to see assad have a puppet regime which would be run by iran and russia, in control of all of syria. we dont want them to inherit the isis territory. we would like to see that held by pr...

Effectively is that raqqa is right on the river, and our forces are fighting there, were sporting them with fire, and here is the problem, if you want to put an air strike in on raqqa, you wont be able to do it without flying west. thus exposing our aircraft. >> we would need to go west to drop a bomb there. what does it say to you if the russians are potentially stopping them. >> i think it will be that we will use the deconfliction line. we have the capability of shooting things down over the ...

And syrian peace talks continue in geneva. we learned from baghdad, u.s. army helicopters airlifted syrian fighters to within 28 miles west of raqqa. theyre starting to close in on raqqa, shepard, while u.k. police are treating this as a terrorist incident, its not known who is responsible. weve been told not to jump to conclusions about which group, if any, might be responsible for this. theyre looking at the possibility that this could be a lone wolf attack. >> shepard: jennifer griffin live a...