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A combat role. >> u.s. forces are not in an active combat mission. >> it represents a continuation of our advice and assist mission. >> our position is a support mission. >> we do not have combat coordinations there the way we had once upon a time in iraq. >> u.s. forces are not in a combat role in iraq. >> and it went on. retired army reserve lieutenant colonel tony shaffer is an operative. they got hammered from press across the board from every media outlet. >> yes, they did. >> for refusing to say this is combat. does it have anything to do with barack obama saying specifically back in 201...

A combat role. >> u.s. forces are not in an active combat mission. >> it represents a continuation of our advice and assist mission. >> our position is a support mission. >> we do not have combat coordinations there the way we had once upon a time in iraq. >> u.s. forces are not in a combat role in iraq. >> and it went on. retired army reserve lieutenant colonel tony shaffer is an operative. they got hammered from press across the board from every media outlet. >> yes, they did. >> for refusing to say this is combat. does it have anything to do with barack obama saying specifically back in 201...

Raids like this, we're going to lose a lot more people. >> so, it also, in a sense, feels a little bit like mission creep. you have u.s. delta forces on the ground, fine, they may be the best of the best, but they're the ones making the decision if u.s. special forces are engaging in combat. we've been told there are no combat forces in iraq. the defense secretary saying there are going to be others in harm's way. this is combat. >> this is combat. we're in a ground war now. we're back in a ground war after four years. we've had helicopters helping the kurds for the last year. these blackhawks...

You're watching cnn newsroom. and thank you for being with us this hour. in a major policy shift, u.s. president barack obama is now abandoning his plan to withdraw most u.s. forces from afghanistan. during his 2008 presidential campaign, he promised to end two wars. in 2011, he removed american combat forces from iraq. but the war in afghanistan is proving more difficult to end. on thursday, the president announced 9800 troops would remain there through the end of 2016. and they all comes on the heels of a new taliban offensive. pentagon correspondent barbara starr has more. >> reporter: as t...

About, it is isis as well. you have two enemies on the ground in addition to supporting combat forces on the afghan side. >> a cornerstone of the obama foreign policy right now and over the last few years has been to train other country's forces, to train forces in iraq, to train forces in afghanistan and, yes, even to train forces inside syria to take the battle to the terrorists. now, in each one of these places, we have found it could not be done as fast or as effectively as the u.s. had wanted. how much of an admission is it that this strategy is flawed 1234? >> that's a final reflection o...