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Islamic are republic of iran in the gulf of the a man today. this assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used. level of expert needed and attacks on shipping and the fact that no proxy group has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of so 50igation. >> mike pompeo with the stark claim that iran is to blame for the attacks on two oil tankers. that burning coming from the tanker there. the "new york times" reports that the navy spotted an unexploded mine that resem...

I voted for based on bad intelligence. warning to my friends and colleagues in congress, just going to an intelligence briefing is not going to teach you enough about the sources that we are using for that intelligence. i believed it, i was the senior democrat on the house intelligence committee. i traveled to britain, which believed it. and it was wrong. and weve reformed how we do national intelligence estimates. nobody has told me we have a new one, by the way, that proves there is a problem....

Its whats called -- what we call a flexible response option that the president has. he can send a platoon of marines or a carrier strike group or anything in between based on the level of threat. as you heard secretary pompeo say and others that this is a credible and imminent threat. and what has happened is iran has resourced its proxy group in eye iraq primarily and other places in the middle east with funds, ammunition, with weapons and given them plans to attack critical soft targets that a...

Confrontation with iran ever. the two exchanged fire for hours this morning after the israeli military says iranian forces based inside syria fired 20 rockets at their positions in the golan heights. this comes days after president trump announced he would withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. the white house said in a statement, the united states condemns the rainian regime provocative attacks against israeli citizens and strongly support israels right to self defend. david lee miller live from ...

Very precarious in this region, israel and saudi arabia praised this move but what happens next? hezbollah is a proxy group, supporter of the assad regime, they could in fact carry it some type of attack in retaliation, back to you. >> connor powell, thank you very much for that report. ainsley: he was the king of hezbollah. the reason america believes this was carried out by assads there were eyewitnesses that thought six wing aircraft used to launch chemical weapons to say. they say the al qae...

Elected president, al hadi. but im not sure the saudis want to get involved in yemen. its a tough fighting environment. other countries have tried and been unsuccessful. so its a real tough decision for the saudis but they dont want to see control of yemen to what they believe is a proxy group for iran their major rival across the persian gulf. >> looks like irans making a major inroad in yemen as they have in iraq in syria, in lebanon and other places as well. thats a great concern to the saudi...

Assigned names and numbers. the nonprofit that deals -- the official says that would never involve a foreign governmentally raush sha or china or a proxy group they might seek to control. >> if youre saying that at&t, verizon, cisco, microsoft, freedom house, public knowledge, center for democracy and technology are all going to allow that to happen, then youre basically saying you dont believe in the multistakeholder model. >> reporter: the head of icann argued the u.s. could relinquish its own...

Ankara it is the work of a leftist group in that country. what can we say about who is responsible, jennifer? >> reporter: the working presumption at this point in time is that this is the work of either an al qaeda group or al qaeda-linked group or an iranian proxy group that may have struck the u.s. as a result of the arrival of those patriots or the involvement in syria. remember that the working assumption in the region is that the u.s. may have helped target that weapons convoy that the isr...

Life-threatening. israeli security forces say they found a similar magnetic bomb stuck to a diplomats car in the former soviet republic public of georgia. they were able to diffuse that one. israels prime minister blaming both incidents on iran and its proxy group in lebanon, hezbollah. the united states considers hezbollah a terrorist organization. last month the islamic republic blamed israel after magnetic car bomb killed iranian nuclear scientist. same sex marriage will soon be legal in the ...

Som somalia is no stranger to factional fighting and killing. on the east coast of africa there, this past week, was no exception. at least 75 people were killed in the capital of mogadishu alone. the dire situation is due in large part to the fact that there has been no functional government for years. militants with ties to the terrorists group known as al shabib faced off against government forces in several clashes. washington considers it a terrorist organization and says it is an al qaeda ...