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W way. while syrian president bashar al assad celebrates what hes calling the liberation of the city. plus its been months since u.s.-backed forces began the battle to liberate mosul, iraq, hoping to free the city from isis control. latest on both fronts right after this.

Battle that could last, wolf, for months and months and months. >> ben wedeman in erbil in northern iraq. and fred pleitgen joining us from beirut, lebanon, not far from the syrian border. lets bring back the former defense secretary chuck hagel. you look at these two situations, aleppo and mosul, lets talk about syria first. when you left the obama administration, you were upset the president had delivered an ultimatum, a red line, if syria used chemical weapons, they would pay a price. the u.s...

Syrian government takes full control of aleppo once again, wolf. >> standby for a moment. i want to bring ben wedeman into this. were now two months into the fight to lib rat mosul, the second largest city in iraq. how much progress has been made? where do things stand now? >> wolf, this was a battle that started with fairly dramatic advances by the iraqi army. and the peshmerga taking villages and towns around mosul. but now its become a street by street, house by house slog. now, according to ...

Hours, they say that there are many civilians who are basically stuck in the middle. youll recall that before the offensive began, the iraqi military dropped hundreds of thousands of leaflets on mosul urging residents to stay in their houses if they felt safe. many of them actually heeded that call. but that has created a situation where you have civilians caught right in the middle of a battleground. yesterday, we spoke to some people who had just come out of mosul who said they were in the low...

Never any really serious conversation about putting 50,000 troops in syria. nobody was for that, by the way, no one. but there were other options that were significant that, in fact, we had agreed on to go forward with -- >> so what should the u.s. do now? >> well, i think the reality is, youre not going to unwind whats just happened. leave it to the historians on who was right, who was wrong and how it day out. but now with a new president, a new administration coming into power in 35 days, wev...

Fred pleitgen is following the situation in syria from across the border in beirut, lebanon. ben wedeman join us from erbil in iraq, not far away from mosul. update us on this operation, the dire situation in aleppo right now. >> wolf, it certainly is dire for folks in the last rebel enclave there in aleppo. youre absolutely right, this operation began early this morning to evacuate all the fighters and all the civilians from that area and it really started very badly. when the first convoy that...

Revenueser in guards a man who for years the u.s. military blames for killing u.s. troops in iraq quote, i urge the people of the province not to trust the americans. americans gave us some armored vehicles recently stipulating they could not be used in the province but do be idea to lib rat mosul only. that from the brigade commander. said the americans couldnt liberate a image urging the pipe of tikrit to pay homage to this iranian commander. >> all right. lets turn to mike barrett. my memory ...

One person was killed. four others were wounded. the attack brought the evacuations to a halt. but the operation has since resumed. were going live to the region for you. in iraq, its been now two months since the battle to retake the city of mosul was launched. iraqi forces backed by the u.s.-led coalition are fighting to regain control of the city from isis. and an update on the operation ahead in a live report. but first, lets get to the president-elect. ness latest response to claims that ...