syria. and, you know, land is one thing. their land has been shrinking. their grip on land has been shrinking, but thidaelg if you listen to the u.s. intel community, it's still there. >> yes. the ideology is still there. sleeper cells, we've seen them attacked in various places in syria and iraq the last few months. and we know that many of the isis fighters have managed to escape, blend back into the local population or go to remote parts of the deserts or the mountains and continue to operate. as a geographical entity, there's not much left to it. just about one square mile. but what we saw this morning is they are launching a serious counter attack. the reason why we're here and i'm not wearing a flack-jacket and a helmet is that in the morning we were woken up by heavy machine gunfire. we went up on the roof where we've been doing lives from for