defense secretary ash carter is to meet with his french counterpart tuesday. in the wake of the paris attacks, the pentagon is hoping allies will increase their efforts in syria all in an effort to break isis' grip on raqqah. the u.s. will press for france and britain to send special forces to join with u.s. commandos due to arrive in northern syria at any time. the u.s. also hopes turkey will agree to let allies not just the u.s. fly out of its insurlic air base to challenge. >> never seen anything like this. 30,000 foreign fighters from 100 countries around the world is almost twice as many that went into afghanistan in the '80s. >> reporter: one place the u.s. is stepping up the action already is against isis' oil infrastructure. over the weekend another round of u.s. air strikes hitting some nearly 300 oil smuggling trucks