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Pentagon that the u.s. training mission of moderate syrian rebels opposed to the bashar al assad regime, opposed to isis, that whole training mission has now been suspended. it's simply not worth working even though the u.s. proposed about $500 million, half a billion dollars, they wound up training four or five rebels. this has been a real disaster. >> well, it has been because in a sense when we finally said we're going to cross a threshold and support those on the ground there, the problem we had always was not just vetting. we wanted to in a sense have them fight only isis. but what has pr...

At least three times as tension heats up in the skies over syria. one pentagon official said the first time it happened, we thought the russians got lucky. then it happened two more times. on at least one occasion, a u.s.-manned aircraft flying over syria had to be rerouted to avoid a russian fighter jet. >> it's largely reactive. >> the cruise missile strike marks the first time that the russians have targeted isis-controlled territory. u.s. officials have repeatedly criticized the russian military for lying about their intentions, arguing that the russians are merely killing the u.s.-backed ...

Moscow is saying, that actually these strikes are meant to target isis? that's who we're going after? >> well, it looks like the evidence on the ground isn't really supporting the russian claims, even russian claims that they're targeting al nusra. the british open source journalism project just did an analysis of russian videos, military videos, where they said they were bombing isis targets and yesterday belling cat said that actually those were filmed i believe hundreds of kilometers away. they were not bombing isis positions. they were bombing rebels that were fighting assad. >> and turkey...

>> people argue they're not targeting isil the rebel-backed forces that are fighting assad. senator john mccain says the russians have struck u.s.-backed forces. listen to this. >> i can absolutely confirm to you there were strikes against our free syrian army or groups that have been armed and trained by the cia, because we have communications with people there. >> the russian, of course, assert that they are targeting isis as well as other groups in syria. but just want to get your gain of what do you think is really going on there and how strong is the u.s. intel on everything there? >> loo...

Precisely one of the problems with the whole approach. by supporting assad and thereby seemingly taking on everybody who is fighting assad, you're taking on the whole rest of the country of syria. >> taking out other rebel groups including the u.s. backed free syrian army could work in favor of the russian strategy in syria, setting up assad as the only alternative to a full isis takeover. emerging from a meeting this afternoon with his russian counterpart, secretary of state john kerry acknowledged the broader political solution of the conflict remains a long way off. >> even as we don't have...