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Taliban and isis in afghanistan. most of the air strikes this year have targeted isis in the eastern part of afghanistan. this year the number of bombs dropped is three times greater than last year's total. the highest number in five years. vice president mike pence made a surprise visit to afghanistan last week where he said the u.s. military was there to stay. his visit a secret because of the high security ricks. when general mattis visited in afghanistan in september he was greeted with a rocket attack at the airport but he had left a few hours before and his plane not damaged. there are 1...

Is willing to act. putin is willing to push and there's no push-back from the united states. what did the spokesman say today, we going to raise this at the united nations. we think this scares putin? going to make him less likely to buzz our ships again? there's no reaction from washington. that's what scares our allies. >> think we're seeing one thing he's seeing how far he can push. cliche about voting with your feet. the leaders of the gulf and israel are not coming to washington, they're going to see vladimir putin in moscow. so you have the gulf leaders, which definitely one sat out of p...

This is the kurdish region of northern iraq. the peshmerga operate here. mick was referring to them a moment ago. they are considered effective fighters. they have been close allies of u.s. forces. there are a lot of special operations commandos that operation in this area and have operated here for some time. and because of that close relationship, because the americans trust the kurds, because the kurds have been effective, in this case, when the kurds asked for american help to go and rescue hostages, the americans said yes. they studied the battlefield. they studied this prison where the h...

Is is actually allowing it to grow, and then the things that they are using to propagate, i do think we are taking an approach that says maybe if we bomb enough or do enough commando raids or give enough weapons to our allies that will solve the problem. i think it's a bit more complex. >> if you look at the umbers, we are doing about 15 air strikes a day, considerably less than we were ever doing in iraq. one time in iraq and afghanistan upwards of 800 a day. are these air strikes have any remote possibility of achieving everything? we don't have booze boots on the ground even to identify tar...

Kind of history of violence? >> reporter: the suspect once hurled a concrete block at a scrap knees envoy and was given a suspended suspense. the u.s. embassy did not request special security for this event. there's a long history of political violence in south korea korea. the president was slashed in the face while campaigning in 2006. the north koreans have launched many attacks using tunnels, other infiltrations. >> they have staged commando raids. they have attempted assassinations of past korean presidents. >> reporter: they tried to assassinate the president's father when he was preside...