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Ground in palmira? what are you hearing? >> reporter: we're seeing social media emerged showing deserted streets to some degree but also people gathering in one city center. it seems by the new isis fighters who are have come in and chanting islamic state among some of them. this is obviously the beginning of isis' presence inside that city. according to eyewitnesses they're going door to door looking for soldiers and being relatively nice to the residents of the town. common tactic. start soft and get more brutal with the regime that want in place as time goes by. all eyesen 0 the ruins on th...

Resources. new video released today showing them at a gas field, 50 kilometers northeast of paulmira, the white house says it has no plans to change anything in its war against isis there have been areas of setback, too, that doesn't mean that the strategy needs to be discarded. >> reporter: obama former defense secretary says he ought to reconsider. >> i think that they do need to at least revisit the rules of engagement for our troops. . >> let's bring in retired fwrig deer general, deputy of operations in the iraq and served in the bush administration as deputy assistant secretary of defens...

Forces in ramadi 10-1 and the iraqi forces were not under fire when they fled. is there any battlefield rationale that could explain their leaving ramadi? the iraqi forces? >> it's leadership and will to fight. saw it with the french in 1940. they ran, outnumbered the germans 10-1 and the germans got through their lines very very quickly. that's the whole idea of putting advisers side-by-side combat-hardened american captains not many of them that will keep them when in the middle of the fight things look so desperate, that young captain can say, colonel, don't worry. we're going to get throug...

If they do the activity normally espousened and other antiquities around iraq jake. >> as you know the addition to the human toll an alarm sounded by the u.n. and other groups about historical sites saying they could be looted and destroyed. is anyone guarding them ought all? at all? >> reporter: the video we saw shows very little presence at all. of regime. obviously, they fled but anything else really seemed limited, too. i imagine most people are going to have free reign over the antiquities. some were evacuated. must be a limited job the regime could pull off given other concerns they clea...

Out his future wife. today the nfl star learned he's no longer facing domestic violence charges. so is he getting special treatment? good afternoon, everyone. i'm jake tapper. welcome to "the lead." horrifying news in the world lead today. they are everywhere. and an eyewitness in syria pleads innocence cannot escape isis. undeterred in its bloody quest to take over syria and iraq the terrorist group is conquering more cities adding to its ever-growing list of territory it controls. today, a crossroads of ancient civilization. the latest conquest meaning isis now has more than half of syria ...