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Allowed safe passage by the iraqi forces. they were asked to raise white flags outside their homes and granted safe passage. about 120 families have been rescued so far. but given the fierce clashes, it looks inevitable that there will be some civilian toll as well in this fight. >> robyn kriel, thank you. rebels in northern syria have captured a major dam from isis fighters. it sits 14 miles from the isis stronghold of raqqah. it is a major power-generation point and part of the key supply li...

Rebels in northern syria say they have captured a strategic dam from isis fighters. it sits 14 miles up the y euphrates river from raqqah. and at the vatican, poep francis is celebrating the feast of the holy family. the theme of the family has been a major priority of pope francis who has devoted the last two synods of bishops to t. several states are dealing with the aftermath of severe flooding during the christmas holiday. some states hit record level of rainfall and led to floods and da...

Message. >> reporter: its 24 minutes left, and its called "wait", because we along with you are waiting. it speaks to judgment day from the koran. but it seems to follow the standard dissemination for isis videos. it has a morale boost for isis fighters, and baghdadi makes a big recruitment pitch. the second big focus is on the israel israel israeli/palestinian conflict. he says isis will surround

Brooklyn. as they were trying to join isis. these guys are also fascinating, kazakhstan uzbekistan living and working in brooklyn? tell us more that youve learned about this investigation here at home. >> theres a few things that are interesting about it. i mean the most interesting is you generally dont have the interactions that occurred in this case with the fbi. i mean as the report prior to this interview said they went to one of the defendants in this case and asked him about a social medi...

That will strike fear in the hearts of infidels. that post brought fbi agents to his front door. abdurasul juraboev admitted he would harm president barack obama, but did not have the means to do so and said if isis ordered him to he would also plant a bomb on coney island in new york city. isis online propaganda, a growing threat to the u.s. the state department says theyre combatting around 90,000 tweets a day. this as the fbi says there are investigations into home-grown violent extremists in...

Caution, haras rafiq, thank you so much for the information. alisyn isis hostage numbers rise sharply in syria. an assyrian human rights group say that isis is holding 262 people hostage. real fears they could be forced into sex slavery or viciously killed. all of this unfolding as clashes intensify between kurdish forces and isis in one town where many of those abductions happened. also breaking overnight, two people killed in a suicide attack outside the iranian embassy in kabul, afghanist...

Children and the elderly, had been abducted by isis. now we hear from edward osama edward founder of the syrian human rights network, who is in sweden but has relatives and is in touch with people in the area. he says that that number is 262 people abducted and currently in the hands of isis. now we dont know their fate. there were reports that some of them had been sent to raqqa, which is in north central syria. essentially the capital of the islamic state. and of course as we know in the past ...

Facebook.com/politics. come ready. >> i might take it out in the snow. the big new discovery in the terror fight. the man known as jihadi john from the terrible isis videos he has a name. coming up how his background changed the global war on terror or not.

>> every time quiet. >> but federal prosecutors say 24-year-old abdurasul juraboev and his 19-year-old friend planned to fly from new york to turkey and then cross into syria to join isis. the teens attorney says the fbi is rushing to prosecute. >> this is all information that is delivered to the fbi if a confidential inform the than the government says they cant rely on the credibility of. >> the third brooklyn man, a 30-year-old business own frer uzbekistan allegedly funded some of the efforts...

Theyre watching people that doesnt mean necessarily they can make a case whenever they want and thats how you see a guy like who theyre now identifying as mohammed emwazi jihadi john from being surveilled in the uk to being the face of isis. we want to bring in tom fuentes, our cnn lawn enforcement analyst and daveed gartenstein-ross senior fellow for the defense of democracies, thanks for being here. tom, lent me start with you. lets talk about what we know now about jihadi john. this seems a...