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Good to be with you. were continuing with comp on the terror attacks in paris. i want to get you up to date. 12 hours after the horrific events occurred in paris last night. terror attacks ripped through the city starting at 9:00 p.m. local time. the first attacks happened outside the stad e de france. you can hear an explosion going off cut through the crowd noise. france officials say it included one bombing and two suicide attacks. multiple reports of gunmen inside the city began to emerge wi...

Triggering the u.s. campaign against isis in iraq. so this is a symbolic victory with the kurds taking control, but clearing the city had been a dangerous, difficult and slow process. hence, some officials urging caution about this. kurdish forces will likely face suicide attacks, snipers, ieds and booby-trapped homes as the other forces in other parts of the fight against isis. still, capturing sinjar is not only symbolic, but strategically important. heres why. the town is along highway 47 tha...

Laura, the details from when we last spoke with grisly, to say the least. what more can you tell us? >> i can tell you according to my agent in, the french television have been asked to cut off our, and believed that the french police are attacking the bataclan. i can confirm there were seven attacks. three were outside the stadium of france, which is the biggest stadium for soccer. it was a big night for a soccer game and soccer fans in paris. the french president was inside and there were thre...

When those of us who were here that day know very well it was confined to those towers downtown. that inside what we would come later to know, the zone, was certainly a disaster, a catastrophe unthinkable in its scope. and disquietening on a level we had never known. the rest of the city was pretty much calm. "associated press" is reporting now, this is new into fox news channel, breaking this moment, french officials confirm two suicide attacks and one bombing near the paris stadium. we now kno...

Themselves. there are multiple injuries. the police is inside. the french president was inside the stadium when the two suicide attacks happened outside the stadium. thats the first fact. the other thing we have from our station and through multiple witnesses, there were a lot of shootouts near a very famous theater inside paris, which is called the bataclan, its a very famous musical. a lot of french people are going there on friday night. and we have between 15 and 18 dead people at this shoot...

Well have explosives on him. and in the last few minutes or so, witnesses have heard explosions coming from inside that theater. so that is an ongoing incident at the moment. but of course theres been these episodes throughout paris tonight, as well, we heard the stade de france, where the football match was going on, between france and germany. the friendly match, there was explosions heard there. weve heard those recorded by a viewer. very loud, clearly shocked the crowd. its now been confirme...

Has since been evacuated from the stands. his face appears to be in reaction to something, we dont know what. we dont know whether it was a moment in the game or the sound from outside the national stadium. lacking exact time code, the caption identifies that hes reacting to explosions outside the stadium. we just dont know that to be fact. laura him is with us, white house correspondent for the french television network canal plus. what can you add to our coverage? >> i can add that its a terri...

Let me turn to you first, michael. based on what we know, time of day, maximum impact, rush hour, this part of beirut near this refugee camp putting all of those pieces together, what does it appear like to you? >> its very clear they were targeting the shia. so the speculation now is that this is centrally blowback for hez baa. la -- hes baa las deployment in syria. this isnt the first time. but it was true that these suicide attacks seem to be trickling off in lebanon. this is the problem. the...

Globally their game has reached a new level. >> he has done very careful studies of suicide attacks and suicide bombings. and he claims that if you look at isis, its very clear that they only attack far enemies. that is to say their principal foes are the assad regime in syria and the baghdad regime in iraq, that they only attack foes when those foreign countries start involving themselves. the canadians in ottawa. and now the russians. their real focus has always been in the region. >> absolute...

Disof suicide attacks and bombings. he claims if you look apt isis its very clear they only attack foreign enemies. the french were attacked. the canadians in ottawa and now the russians. their real focus has been in the region. they only go out against outsider if they kind of try to stir the hornets nest. >> absolutely, correct. al qaeda made the strategic decision that the way to win was to go after the far enemy, us and our allies as a way to undermine the near enemies. isis has turned that ...