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Army. brian: what years? >> 2003 to 2009. brian: how would you characterize those years? >> best years of my life so far. brian: i hear thats a great place to be stationed number one, also the hospital there first received the wounded from the middle east. so, when i -- if i see you at jfk in the airport today and i say thank you for your service, how do you handle that. >> you know, part of the 49% who kind of stutter in response and my initial response is thank you but thank you for maintainin...

Similar for when it came and they are attacked it was part of a convoy being is courted by the military its reported that an explosive device truck sold the as be called before again men opened fire actually search its people were killed dozens are feared missing now relatives of those killed want answers from the government there waiting to bury their loved ones. i havent seen my husband for 2 days and i came here today to see his body and take the body and leave but i dont care what the minist...

Mexican government is that these families were caught up in sort of collateral damage of a turf war between two wars factions in -- between two warring factions. >> the juarez cartel and the sinaloa cartel and a man arrested with guns near the scene of the massacre has no connection to the killings whatsoever. martha. >> martha: trace, thank you. joining me now by phone is lace langford jr. -- a relative of the nine victims that were killed in the mexico ambush. lace, thank you very much for spe...

Syria 3 weeks ago kurds from the y p g militia in the region hit back returning fire at the upholstery store where her little and his brother work was hit both men a syrian refugees living in the border town of. how. weve lived here in peace but then they started firing rockets at us everyone ran for cover we wanted to carry away the wounded but then i was also hit by a shell. the. says the kurdish militia wanted to take revenge on ticky and instead hit refugees he has a piece of shrapnel in his...

Cliff to get there, correct? >> yes, sir, thats correct. at one point myself and seth howard, our team sniper we knew we couldnt make it back up the way it had gone before. the enemy had had that position pinned down, so we had to hand over hand scale a cliff laterally to get to a small outcropping to finally reach the wounded. ainsley: matthew, that just shows how strong you are and you are out there fighting for our country. im looking at you. i see all of the accolades that you have earned fi...

Peter alexander has in battle. >> reporter: it was an ambush in the mo instantly changed master sergeant matthew williams mission. >> it was quiet. thats when everything just erupted machine gun fire, rpgs. >> reporter: all coming your way? >> yeah, seemed like it was coming from every direction all at once. >> reporter: williams team of special forces in afghan commandos on a raid hunting terrorists after they came under attack - >> im hit >> reporter: shifted to getting his teammates off that ...

Operation down and then once the guys are through the breach then you expect a real fire fight. so this is really a dicey operation, and i tell you, it speaks to delta forces capabilities. probably the best trained military unit in the world. it is the best trained, and the fact that they got in there without any wounded or dead is just quite amazing. >> i mean, it is pretty incredible. you also think about the targeting, the exact targeting of those air strikes, right? coming from, you know, yo...

He fought for several more hours, valiantly protecting the wounded and putting his own life in great peril to save his comrades. matts incredible heroism helped ensure that not a single american soldier died in the battle of shock valley. his grand commander later wrote, ive never seen a troop so poised, focused and capable during a fight and matt is without question and without reservation one of the bravest soldiers and people ive ever met. matt wants all americans to know that he was not alon...

Joining us now. richard, is your reporting fighting still happening near where you are? what can you tell us? >> so, this talk about a cease fire, that a cease-fire is in place and yesterday many lives. theres still fighting going on right now in three particular villages, close-up fighting with kurds, rifles to their shoulders firing, dragging away the wounded. we have picture of it. trying to get pictures out right now of people fleeing the area. there is still fighting going on right now to b...

Shelling. it is difficult to tell what is going on on the ground and who is responsible for any of these violations. and as you mentioned, both sides are accusing each other of breaching the cease-fire. turkey, for its part, said they have recorded 20 violations, as they describe it, by the syrian kurdish fighters. today announcing one turkish soldier killed and another one wounded. they were conducting surveillance control when they came under attack. and they say they responded. because under ...