Sources tell us that saudi arabia, the United Arab Emirates, bahrain, jordan and qatar. White house correspondent chris jansing, what is the white house saying publicly at this moment . Publicly they are saying absolutely nothing. What we know is this is significant what you just said. These partner nations. We heard from the president that he planned to have a coalition. We heard from Samantha Power, the un ambassador. If air strikes happen in syria, the United States was not going to go it alone and sig knave cant that it comes on the eve of the president going to the United Nations to do what he calls rallying the world around this threat that is posed by isis. You had bombers and fighter jets and tomahawk cruise missiles raining down. We are about 2 3 where they are in syria. The president , we expect will hear from him tomorrow. He leaves at around 10 20 eastern time. The president went before the American People and gave a speech and he said that he was willing to go into syria and he was willing to work to form this coalition. We saw some of the ground work that was done at the nato summit. As they were leaving, they said what they wanted to do was to go into the United NationsGeneral Assembly with the coalition forum. As you know, it has been very difficult to get very specific commitments. Even those countries you named that were learning were involved tonight, we dont know specifically the level of involvement, but clearly the president wants to go and show that militarily as well as diplomatically because there is significant moves or at least what the administration sees as significant and diplomatic moves will happen in the United Nations on wednesday and thursday. They can say that the u. S. Is not going it alone. This is an International Push and recognition on the International Stage of the threat posed by isis. Its a remarkable and dramatic context for these strikes to be happening on the night before the president heads to new york for the un General Assembly. This is the one week out of the year where every world leader is in one place. In new york. The president comes every year and makes an address. All major World Leaders often will make addresses. He is now the president who won a Nobel Peace Prize and the man who campaigned obviously against the war in iraq is going to go before the un General Assembly having begun military operations with the group of arab nations in yet another country in syria. Something this president himself resist and warned against and is going to make the case that essentially isis is a threat to all nations across the sectarian and even ideological speck. In broader context, it was just year ago when this president addressed the United Nations. He was talking about the drawdown in afghanistan and iraq and how iraqi forces were going to provide for their own sources. You are right. This is most unusual. This is the one move and he is only the 6th world leader who headed up one of the sessions. The Un Security Council was the threat of foreign fighters. Leading the charge that the un is going to state that they will do something the president talked about in his speech almost two weeks ago. He wanted to be able to go in with the statement that the arab allies are with us and with this action, the indication of the other nations involved that he will be able to go into. Most surprising is qatar. Qatar is fabulously wealthy like the uae and small and very oilrich. It has been identified by a variety of folks as one of the channels for some of the most militant groups in syria including the precursors for isis. They are playing both sides from the optics that qatar is on this list of the sunni nations that are part of the coordinated air strikes tonight. That was the push back with some sources. They suggested they were not sure how deep they were for the reasons you site. Up until this point, the most significant statement that they were able to make was about saudi arabia and able to do some training there. The president will have to go and i think the plan is for him to go before the United Nations and to be able to enumerate the contributions that these countries are making. Its going to be important necessary them at home and it will be important for bringing others on board and going to be important for him who as you so rightly stated at the beginning of this hour has been and certainly very thoughtfully and ka carefully made the decision to launch air strikes. Now in syria that he is able to keep his word to the American People. The week since the nato summit. In particular, john kerry and Samantha Power and there were a 99 of meetings and they said it. 140 World Leaders. Chief of Foreign Correspondent richard engle. Richard, what do we know about the actual strikes here. Where they happened and what theyre intended to do. This is a strategic shift. The United States wants to target isis which is syria. The u. S. Has been targeting in iraq, but they had enormous safe havens and now they are going after isis in syria. This is not just going to be one target or we hear about 20 targets tonight. If you target the known isis position now, you watch and there drones for surveillance planes and satellite cover over syria right now. You watch how these targets scatter. You watch how the isis militants move from place to place and follow and there will be strikes throughout the morning and this is all projected. They announced they will build the coalition and they said which countries will be participating and it gave isis time to move assets and the key personnel into towns and villages out and thats the home base and you cant move the command and control centers. You can cover them on the street, but they can still be found. Can you talk a little bit about the significant of basically the capital to the extent there is such thing as an Islamic State and i dont think they declared it to be such, they have emerged as the capital where isis has been running things. Raqqa is a city in eastern syria. Not very far from iraq. The militants had a sanctuary for well over a year. That that has been the uncontested area for a long time. There two capitals. Raqqa . Syria and mosul in iraq. Raqqa is a city of several hundred thousand and mosul has two million. Raqqa is going to have civilian casualtie casualties, but the other which is mo cell which is far bigger. Second or Third Largest in iraq i was remembering the earliest days of the military operations in afghanistan in the wake of 9 11. You were dealing with jihadis armies that were overpowered by any military since. We fought for 13 years and its unclear whether there was a definitive viktly. You have this militant group. Lets go back to afghanistan. In 2001, 9 11 happens and we have the taliban and al qaeda entrenched in afghanistan. Three months from intense and almost no troops on the ground. There were special forces there, but about 400 in total. One american guy cost roughly 1 billion. After three months, the taliban and al qaeda were moved. Al qaeda was on the run. This area was liberated. This was the Northern Alliance and they took control. Things were stable. Then the war in iraq happened and they took their eye off the ball and things got complicate and it lasted over a decade. Had they stopped after three months, things could have been different. Lets say its comparable. Its easier to get a sense of the smaller. We dont have a Northern Alliance. There is a big difference there. The significance is a number of ways. There is a sectarian war between sunni and shia that is harking across the region. This is the by product of a sectarian war. A war that the u. S. Helps to reinvigorate. They fanned the flame of the war. Isis is a terrorist group that has global ambitions. They doubted it in the past and they had global ambitions. This is the result of a much older and larger conflict that the United States cannot hope to solve. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Good to talk to you. We are following breaking news at this hour. The United States has begun bombing syria with tomahawk and land missiles. Stay with us right here on msnbc. You make a great team. Its been that way since the day you met. But your erectile dysfunction it could be a question of blood flow. Cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be Ready Anytime the moments right. 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The headquarters and logistic sites and training sites and troop encampments. The location of these are in and around raqqa, syria. Thats one of the two capitals. Other nations of saudi arabia and bahrain, jordan and qatar are involved operationally in the air strikes. This is just 12 day as after president obama outlines a strategy against isis. I made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists wherever they are. That means i will not hesitate to take action in syria as well as iraq. This is a core principal of my presidency. If you threaten america, you will find no safe haven. Joining me now by phone in studio, terrorism analyst with global partners. Let me start with you. The enemy gets a voes. What do we expect to see from isis which is against the backdrop of the un General Assembly. This is a global war. It expanded past and its a global war. Indeed. The spokesman of isis over 24 hours ago, the attacks on the hide outs in syria, he reached out to the supporters globally. Especially in australia and europe as well as syria. Just attack civilian military, it does not matter. They caused damage to us and we cause damage to them. He promised this will be the last bombardment the United States is going to carry against the Islamic State. Its unfathomable to believe, but he is reaching out to western countries. I think its significant. What do you think they are driving for in terms of the u. S. . There is a reason to think they want to beat the u. S. Into conflict. They are now the force that is fighting the u. S. There is other reasons to think that obviously they have now invited in a massive amount of power. Its a battlefield that is difficult and complex. What are they trying to do . Its solidifying the grievance that we are facing. It reoccurred in afghanistan. In arabic for the crusader war. On the other hand, they are showing themselves to be an actual state. They claim to be the state with a stronghold and Logistic Support and soldiers and army. For them they are trying to demonstrate. Being treated by a state in war and that part of their prop granda is that they declared a state. That rallies support for them and Financial Report for them primarily. How long can you anticipate this will be in the phase that sustained ariel bombardment and talking about heavily populated cities. Mosul of course where you run the risk of civilian casualties. The terrain and repel any attacks that will come after the fact. Thats not going to be americans. We will have special forces and Operational Forces and so on on the ground. That doesnt seem to be in the offense yet. This campaign to the backdrop of the meeting is kind of an interesting juxtaposition. Its going to be just these are powerful attacks, but they are really just tactical and they are going take a long, long time. Also you mentioned it, a lot of the affects now are going to be in built up areas. They are not going to attack those with any precision. We are not going to have collateral damage. Rook for this to go on for sometime. From the propaganda perspective of isis, they talk about the war. Part of the reason they have been so careful. They insisted on the coalition of regional air partners is to cut against two possibilities. They are aligning with the shias against the sunnis, part of the perception that gave rise to isis. We are not going to be the air force for the militias who are doing horrible things to sunnis throughout the region. This is not a crusader war. The guardians of the holy land. Will that scan and will that matter . Absolutely not. As a matter of fact isis views the sunni regimes around the shiites. The regime is the king dochl jordan. They are proxy regimes protecting the interest of the United States that claims this is where the drones come out from. From saudi arabia. This is what the intelligence provides for the United States. They see this spearheaded and colonel jack, part of the battlefield in terms of perception. You will not convince isis. What is globally will have actual effects on the ground in terms of what these countries that are this now engaging in the escalation can and cannot achieve. It looks to me like the coalition has come with great reluctance. I think it will be difficult to engender the military support that they will need to defeat isis. That means people on the ground. We have been talking about training the moderate rebels, something of an oxymoron it seems to me. To go into syria. And they need a lot more of those and really defeat isis. In the interim, all we are going to see are attacks on targets of opportunity. Far away from built up areas. We can confine them and identify them from the electronics and to the extent that they go underground, it will be more and more pressure on these coalitions to do something thats one reason and one thing they will contribute to this lasting a long time. We should note here as a matter of being on the record. We are talking in the moral standing. Bahrain that they request protesters, these states that have aligned are not necessary ly beacons of human rights. Thank you very much. We are following breaking news tonight in the american war on isis. The u. S. Began air strikes in syria about 2 1 2 hours ago. Stay with us for the very latest live on msnbc. Whats that . Snapshot from progressive. Plug it in, and you can save on Car Insurance based on your good driving. You sell to me . No, its free. You want to try . I try this if you try. Not this. Okay. Da here we have confirmation for the pentagon after bombs began to fall. On twitter, the air strikes came about 20 minutes before. A blow by blow account breaking huge explosions on what might be the beginning of air strikes. They are concentrated near the building, isiss main headquarters. Finally the sky is full drones or raqqa now. Your reaction to a fairly remarkable feat that this was put together if in fact these countries, bahrain, qatar, jordan and saudi arabia are operationally involved. When you are looking at the strikes, obviously what this means for neighboring countries and the region. We talk about the areas involved, you have to think about it operationally and ideas logically. Given Political Support through the ongoing operations. In some cases the capabilities over the airspace. It is a Significant Development that and they are willing to get involved. Does it regain what it lot of and what will the Syrian Government do . It has been very public in saying it does not welcome air strikes inside the territory. It warned the u. S. From doing it. The real question is going to be whether or not in the coming da days. You have to wonder what assads move will be here now. Some speculated that there has been two cases about this. Some speculated that they are going to take up whatever territory isis pushed back bite coalition activity. Others say isis and assad feed on each other and taking out isis is bad for assad because he pointed to isis saying its me or them. What do we anticipate from the syrian army here . You touched on the alignment o