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There's been a steady effort to degrade isil inside of iraq and the target leadership. but we want to be able to independently confirm that. >> there's another report that a coalition bomb, i don't know if a u.s. bomb or a coalition warplane, hit a mosque. is that true? >> wolf, the pentagon would have to speak to that. the fact of the matter is we use incredibly precise weapons in our strikes inside of iraq and in syria. we take great care to avoid civilian casualties. and if we do have a civilian casualty incident, we investigate it and we report it. so we'll be very transparent about any of...

Boko haram militants have kidnapped 40 boys and men in a remote nigerian village. they rounded up villagers in borno state. it happened where these school girls, more than 200, were kidnapped last april. members of the christian clergy in jord are throwing their support behind a pilot being held by isis. the 26-year-old airman was taken captive when his coalition warplane came down in northeast syria last week. he belongs to a prominent sunni family in jordan. on saturday representatives of several jordanian churches met with his family. afterward, his father called on isis a sunni group, to...

That's problematic to see that a u.s. coalition warplane would fly within the range to put itself at risk of getting shot down. right now u.s. authorities say there is no evidence that the plane was shot down. they're not able to say yet what they do think brought it down and these are first reports but logic tells you there would be a couple things they would look at. did some wing man, another pilot fly nearby see a missile launch. is there any radar signature, any heat signature from a missile that may have been launched. did the pilot who ejected give any warning that he might have been hi...