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Should be remembered. jake? >> jim accosta at the white house, thank you. were also learning new information about how that u.s. raid in yemen went down aside from the death of chief petty officer ryan owens. 7 women and 6 children were among those killed in the raid. minor details, down to the illumination from the moon, those were carefully crafted during the previous administration. the new commander in chief made his first phone call to a grieving family on tuesday. the family of chief petty...

>> that should be more than 150 of them in france since friday. police confiscating weapons, bullet proof vests and even a rocket launcher. senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is live for news paris once again. fred? >> reporter: michael, certainly the investigation as it moved forward is more and more resleeling there was a complex web that appears to have been at work here, spanning of course various european countries at this point in time here in france. the authorities are look...

>> there is no denying that this is a setback. but theres also no denying that the united states will help the iraqis take back ramadi. >> a stark change in the narrative of success the u.s. tried to build revealing a weekend raid that killed an isis in syria. a money man killed guarding a tr trove of vital documents. few isis experts have heard much about him. latest figures suggest that that assault caused 25,000 people to flee who are already trying to get into overcrowded baghdad. there are ...

Where we sustained setbacks. >> set backs. there are a fair number of people who might disagree with that. is this loss of ramadi a strategic loss. 70 miles from baghdad. extending isis influence. and does it demonstrate that isis after all of this time can field a large offense force and the iraqis cannot fight back against it. >> as you know the u.s. formally released the real name of the isis commander killed in the weekend raid. how key was this terrorist? >> well look. they are saying again...

Phones and other intelligence from that weekend raid deep in eastern syria. cnn has learned the target, a man called sayyaf by the u.s., had been under surveillance since march when delta force commandos flew in helicopters, they had fresh intelligence indicating he was there. the commandos quickly ran into a fire fight and hand to hand combat. they blew a hole in the side of the building to get inside. sayyaf was killed. his wife taken into custody and questioned. u.s. officials say he had crit...

Atrocities. many say isis very much on the march forward. they have a lot of abandoned iraqi arm our the security forces left in their wake not justton for anbar but also to baghdad for which they are increasingly close. >> thanks so much for that. also, a big gain to tell you about for the coalition fighting isis. we are learning more about that weekend raid in syria involving u.s. army delta force that killed a top commander and captured his wife cnn is live with more. what do we know about th...

Iraqi police and tribes are massing to fight back. but isis controls two other towns close to the capital, fallujah and karma. they would have a straight shot into baghdad from their strongholds in syria. u.s. officials were quick to frame the loss as part of the long fight against isis. >> the campaign against dash is a long one. its going to take a long time. weve already said that. >> reporter: but monday, an admission this is a loss. >> there is no denying that this is a setback. but there i...

This undercuts that argument. >> sunlen serfaty reporting live from the white house. u.s. special forces take down the so-called money man of isis. the pentagon says abu sayyaf was among a group of militants killed during a daring weekend raid in eastern syria. commandos dropped into the area with the help of black hawk helicopters and thats when a fierce firefight took place on the ground. no civilians were killed. officials say sayyafs wife was captured. shes being detained in iraq for inter...

Field a large-scale military attack. >> there are fierce battles taking place in neighborhoods in the city and popular mobilization units have been ordered by the prime minister to move in. >> reporter: just 48 hours earlier a top u.s. military official suggested ramadi might be just an isis pr stunt. now isis roaming deserted streets. able ban donned weapons, a sign of hasty retreat. u.s. air strikes will continue but no sign yet of iraqi government forces ready to counterattack. all this says ...

So a mini conversation was had. heres a look at some of the stories. a marines task force is on high alert after the weekend raid at libya. 100 marines are in place at naval air station in southern italy, another 200 on the way. teenage pakistani activist malala yousefi who survived after a gunshot wound to the head is once again getting death threats from the militant group. she is out with a new book nearly one year since she was shot at the age of 15 for simply trying to make sure that al...