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good evening from new york, i'm chris hayes. today that u.s. military began a long expected military campaign zaria and iraq against iranian proxy forces and the islamic revolutionary guard corps, sometimes known as the -- force. the retaliation for that drone attack over the weekend went three american army reservist 48 and a dozen more injured in the airbase in jordan. the strikes that killed americans for himself as part of a series of extended between various militant groups backed by iran and u.s. forces that followed the october 7th hamas attack in israel and israel's subsequen...

Brings up is an issuer here, but at the same time, you have desperate people fighting for their life. and if there are terrorists trying to infiltrate these refugee groups, you're talking about a tiny number, right? >> you're talking about a tiny number right now, poppy, but the problem is, the fighting in syria's actually getting worse, around damascus, duma, in the eastern regions, it's enormous, the casualties in august are hired in the war. that's going to mean more roaf ugees coming to europe. the passports are easy to make, easy to forge, easy to change names, the i.d. cards are very sop...

>> live coverage of the big stories stateside and around the world in the next hour of your "new day" starts right now. >> if you are just joining us we want to wish you a happy sunday morning and thank you for sharing a little bit of your morning with us. i am christi paul. >> i am victor blackwell. we have got to start with the still fresh deal to get rid of syria and getting rid of the chemical weapons. john kerry is trying to soothe concerns there. >> and damascus is closer to jerusalem than boston to new york. so they have a tremendous stake in the destruction of the arsenal there, unde...

Here, don, but they're not able to get to that area just yet. they're in negotiations with the syrian government and with the opposition to try and get safe passage into those areas, don. >> well, there's been some question about whether this really is -- can this really be a coincidence, the rebels were reportedly hit boy chemical weapons and the regime troops are hit just a few days later. >> reporter: yeah. yeah. i mean, it does seem a little bit awkward. however, the regime has been saying for the past couple of days is that if anybody used chemical weapons on the battlefield, they believe...

Awkward to all of a sudden find a chemical weapons stash in an area that's been under siege for such a very long time. but again, who knows? it's very difficult to tell at this point in time. there is no hard evidence, and the thing that's troubling about all of this, the longer all of this takes, the more difficult it will be to gather evidence. because while all of this is going on, there is still a big military operation under way by the syrian military. they are firing artillery into the same areas that were allegedly hit by that chemical attack the whole day, today and the whole day yeste...