Defense sources are telling cnn otherwise. let s go straight to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. what are your sources telling you about what happened and who the drone belongs to? let s start off by saying officially the russian government says that all of their drones are accounted for. nothing of theirs got shot down anywhere, especially not over turkey. you see this wreckage on the ground. you see turkish military forces near this wreckage. now u.s. officials are saying they believe there are initial reports that are drone was russian. maybe a separate question who was operating the drone. we don t know if there was some russian operators at some ground station operating it or operated by someone else. but u.s. officials say the initial reports they have is it was a russian drone. all american drones are
And for more on the race for house speaker and the looming decision by congressman paul ryan, be sure to tune in tomorrow, sunday morning futures with maria bartiromo. she will be joined by new york congressman peter king and california congresswoman, mimi walters. that is tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. eastern right here on the fox news channel. don t want to miss that one. and we have a fox news alert. no jail time for bowe bergdahl. that s the recommendation from the colonel who oversaw that hearing about bergdahl. he, according to defense sources, is recommending that the case go to civilian court. that could potentially then mean that bergdahl would get a bad conduct discharge and perhaps a short jail term, although the head of that article 32 section is saying that jail time would not be appropriate in this case. as you know, bergdahl caused quite a controversy, being accused of treason, of being a deserter, for walking off his post in afghanistan, in 2009,
Mcchrystal was head. defense sources say the new operation involves the cia and special operations teams, like the ones that killed osama bin laden, carrying out raids that deliver intelligence that then allows the military to target and kill terrorists like the british online hacker janaid hussein. the drone strike that killed him signalled how the military and intelligence community are finally leveraging all their assets to target and kill isis leaders using drones over syria. raids like the one on may 16th by a delta force team targeting abu sayef resulted in an intelligence windfall from computers and the capture of his wife. with turkey finally allows u.s. armed drones to fly out of inserlik enables the drones to hover longer and take advantage of the new intelligence. some military experts say it s too little too late. president obama continues take an incremental approach to
Jennifer griffin is life at the pentagon with more live hi, jennifer. reporter: the story was reported by the washington post but defense sources say the u.s. military and cia have moved into a new phase of targeting high value individuals using a method that was perfected in iraq. it is where the cia and special operations teams like the ones that killed bin laden carry out raids that have intelligence and allow the military to target and kill terrorist like the british online hacker who used cyber techniques to recruit isis followers. this drone strike signals the u.s. military and intelligence community were able to leverage all of their assets to target and kill this isis leader. but what i am told by well placed sources is what you are seeing is the result of recent
We re live in jerusal ruusa protected by the missile defense system known as at iron dome. the israel defense sources say it intercepted more than 100 hamas rockets since the latest conflict began a few days ago. we have a closer look at the iron dome. tom, what do you see? as ho smas improved the range of the misthes substantially over the past few years since it first debuted three years ago, the iron dome for israeli has been substantially improved. so so that israel is claiming a 90% success rate in neutralizing the missile threat coming out of gaza. how does it work? three steps. first of all, detection. any time any missiles rise up out of gaza and are heading up toward tel-aviv or jerusalem, high speed cameras, technically