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>> heather: james mattis, his new goal to kill isis militants rather than forcing them to retreat. this as u.s.-backed iraqi forces push into mosul to liberate the remaining isis-controlled districts of the city. i'm joined by walid phares. thank you for joining us. he said moving from attrition >> it's a change of direction how we fight isis. their military machine should not survive. we're not pushing them from mosul to go to another city, from iraq to syria or other way. what he is trying to do is basically to break that machine so there would be no surviving institution or cells that could...

New video from northern iraq showing oil fields setted on fire by isis as some 30,000 iraqi troops and peshmerga forces push to take control of mosul. u.s. forces are supporting troops from the air. parents in nigeria were reunited with 21 school girls kidnapped more than two years ago by boko haram terrorists. the girls were released tuesday. negotiations are still under way to release the others still in captivity. now, back to "dateline extra." welcome back. six months after one woman was raped and killed in a texas college town, a second woman was attacked in the neighboring community. h...

As nato forces push into taliban strongholds in the south, eight americans have died in the last 24 hours. nbc's jim miklaszewski joins us from the pentagon. mick, tell us what happened. >> we're barely into the middle of -- as many as 33 americans have been killed so far this month, as you said, eight of them today. four of them in one of those deadly ied attacks. one soldier who died of wounds suffered in an earlier gun battle, but the most troubling of the incidents occurred during an attack on a police station in kandahar when a suicide bomber drove a car through the front gate, exploded h...

Themselves out of the race. he slid into that second spot, took the silver medal. when he did it, it was his sixth overall winter olympic medal of all times and he now ties bonnie blair for the most winter olympic medals of all times. >> thank you for that. we're going back to the huffington post with sam stein. we're going to go through the news and ask you to weigh in on the biden/cheney debate. >> and it was quite a debate. >> it was quite a debate. the u.s. military is apologizing to afghanistan's leadership after a rocket attack on sunday reportedly killed 12 civilians. it comes as na...

You or -- because he was a master of pr. >> yes, he was. he was a public relations genius and one of the wonderful comments in one of his letters to a comrad, he says never underestimate public relations, propaganda, is the word he used. he said it is the soul of our struggle, of our revolution and believe me he never forgot propaganda. >> and at this point cuba taking time for nine days of mourning given the loss of the former leader there. still ahead on cnn newsroom, civilians are on the run as government forces push into eastern aleppo. why the tide could be turning in syria's civil war....