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Trying to find new ways to pressure the militant group. cnns barbara starr looks at the u.n.s options and obstacles in this region. >> reporter: american f-16s at anytime could begin to strike isis from their base here at incirlik turkey. some strikes may be aimed at the tushish-syrian border where isis forces just moved in after al qaeda left. strikes will try to pave the way for putting u.s. trade, moderate rebels back in to syria after their unit was decimated in an attack. this has been a di...

Border after al qaeda left. strikes will try to pave the way for putting u.s. trained moderate rebels back into syria after the unit was decimated in an attack. >> this has been a difficult process. to vet these people, to train them, to get them back into a very fluid dynamic situation. >> reporter: the penn trying to figure out how to salvage the training effort. more than 70 additional rebels may finish their training in the next few weeks. >> we need on find a group willing to be our boots o...

Province to the west and get them into some sort of training effort get them some additional weapons and some additional equipment that too is going very slowly. the sunnis obviously very skeptical of the u.s. staying power over the years in iraq. they have a lot of skepticism. they are not seen as being absolutely key once again years later after that sunni awakening in anbar province during the initial years of the war. the sunnis are seen as key to getting the u.s. to get the iraqis to get an...

Allow the u.s. to take on isis terrorists in syria. but even as the votes were being counted there was fresh evidence that the battlefield is global. abcs karen travers has more. >> reporter: the senate approved president obamas plan to train and equipment moderate syrian rebels to fight isis. >> the strong bipartisan support in congress for this new training effort shows the world that americans are united in confronting the threat from isil which has slaughtered so many innocent civilians. >> ...

Scotland. hamish macdonald reporting. thank you so much. both the senate and house have passed a law that would allow the u.s. to take on isis terrorists in syria. but even as the votes were being counted there was fresh evidence that the battlefield is global. abcs karen travers has more. >> reporter: the senate approved president obamas plan to train and equipment moderate syrian rebels to fight isis. >> the strong bipartisan support in congress for this new training effort shows the world t...

Apart as they squabble. right now the syrian government has a lot more weapons in the area of tanks, which are easy to spot. they have helicopter gunships, transport. theyre dropping barrel bombs out of the back of gun ships. so that would reduce the number of civilian casualties. and if were going to provide some kind of support we need to get in there on the ground, not with troops but advisors who can tell us the level of the bloodshed and the killing and then direct some of these no-fly atta...

>> more than $7 billion going to illegal immigrants. thats according to brand new estimates from the budget committee member just session. he says it has to do with a well-known loop whole that allows in i one to claum a credit even if they dont have citizenship. >> now time to look at whos talking after a new report shows the labor department paid out half a million dollars of federal stimulus money this to run ads touting the administrations training effort for green jobs. how did they spend t...

Jarret warned that obama could be blamed in the operation went awry." principal deputy white house secretary josh earnist today shot down the report. >> its an utter fabrication. it seems clear that doesnt know what he is talking about. miss jarret was not on the operation on the mission against usama bin laden. >> reporter: the mission was reportedly scrapped the day before it was successfully carried out because of weather. but attain report narse day showed ideal condition. bret? >> bret: sha...

security to hamid karzai and the specific road map for troops to come home from the more than decade long war. >> last year, we removed 10,000 u.s. troops from afghanistan. another 23,000 will leave by the end of summer. after that, reductions will continue at a steady pace with more and more of our troops coming home. as our coalition agreed, by the end of 2014 the afghans will be fully responsible for the security of their country. >> the trip fell on the one-year anniversary of the ...

as our coalition agreed, by the end of 2014 the afghans will be fully responsible for the security of their country. >> the trip fell on the one-year anniversary of the day that the president ordered navy s.e.a.l.s to take out osama bin laden. >> over the last three years, the tide has turned. we broke the talibans momentum. we built strong afghan security forces. we devastated al qaedas leadership, taking out over 20 of the top 30 leaders. one year ago, from the base here in afghanist...