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Type of a mission? >> weve been urging the administration for some time to conduct these types of attack on a more routine basis like we did in iraq and after stan. these are raids designed to kill and capture leaders and in iraq and afghanistan an overwhelmingly majority of these raids we kill leaders and as a result we got a valuable amount of information. this is a good thing weve done army elite forces delta on the ground doing this daring competent, same thing for the helicopter pilots the ...

From carrying out terrorist acts? >> were not going to see isis collapsing. isis is making advances approaching an important city in syria. its captured part of an important city in iraq. so its moved on the ground. its going to deter isis from the same deployment they had before. theyre going to be afraid. now they dont have those long caravans because of our air raids. now theyll learn from this operation. the other commanders in isis wont be as obviously in charge and as known. >> does this s...

Least in syria. if this is a successful tactical operation are we changing our strategy with regard to isis? are we arming the minorities? this is an exceptional tactical operation, but this does not indicate we are changing strategy so far. >> successful but risky? >> it is very risky. we had the best professional also in the world. i am amazed by the way this was conducted. just because we dont have troops on the ground in syria. so success, tactically risky of course but we have no indication...

Operation with such high stakes such a high-value target and such risk u.s. special operations troops that president obama personally gave the go-ahead. thats according to a spokesperson for the national security council. u.s. forces went in to a site in eastern syria, tried to grab a senior isis leader and his wife. he put up a fight. he was killed and his wife was captured and is in u.s. military detention in iraq. according to the national security council, quote the president authorized this...

Officials, a top military commander. so this is being call a significant blow to sis. u.s. secretary of defense released a statement about the raid. reading, quote, last night at the direction of the commander in chief, i ordered u.s. special operations forces to conduct an operation in al amir in eastern syria to capture an isil senior leader known as abu sayyaf and his wife um sayyaf. iz military sources tell fox news the u.s. armys elite delta force carried out that operation, went deep into ...

Are. this will be the warning for the captures in other places to hide them away from us. >> so youre pleased with todays news? you thought it was a step forward? symbolically? >> only if its the beginning of an operation. if its an orphan operation, i would be concerned. if its the beginning of a new generation. >> thank you so much. another weekend, another round of severe weather taking aim at americas heartland. meteorologist janice dean is in the fox extreme weather center. are we at the ...