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>> bill neely, it sounds as if the situation has deteriorated fairly quickly. >> reporter: yeah, very quickly indeed and you've now got turkish troops or turkish-led troops facing president assad's forces. and don't forget, these are not regular turkish troops. these are turkish militias. they're, in fact, the old free syria army, in other words, rebels in a new uniform. and they're islamists, many of them. we saw very disturbing video yesterday craig of kurdish prisoners being executed by one of these groups. u.s. officials tell nbc news that some of the turkish militias contain members of al...

Breaking news out of iraq tonight. militants believed to be isis extremist fighters taking more territory regaining control of the refinery in baijii, and gaining ground in parts of the kurdish north. arwa damon witnessed the fighting there. >> reporter: the battle lines drawn but for over a week, not crossed. then came the isis assaults. they came at us from three directions, colonel ahmed tells us. the battle lasted for six hours. in the distance, an iraqi iraqi military vehicle commandeered by isis. the intersection at this combat outpost is protectinging is increw credibly strategic. sadda...

The lion's share is located in foreign targets. you see a sliver that has a revolutionary ideology that says the rest of the guys can fight for baghdad. we're going to fight to spread this battle overseas. you've got to collect intelligence on those guys because they'll be training kids from minneapolis or new york. to my mind, that's part of what these 300 americans will be doing there, trying to figure out if there's a foreign fighter faction we've got to go after. >> go ahead. >> if i can pile on top what phil just said, clearly there's an effect to the intelligence community. phil is descr...

We're in jordan. soon going to be fifting infig jordan. isis declared a chapter in jordan. islamists and jihadists don't believe in at rangement, league of nations and don't believe in the united nations. they have defined the islamic community, the oma as a political block, not just a religious block. a political identity. they believe in forcibly uniting, if it is, by sort of, means of di policemplomacy, or muslims across the world, the jihadist terrorists from the sunni background would exclude shiites of iran and baghdad and maliki's government. they believe in uniting all sunni muslims in...

What we have with the isf is, you have got a -- whole host of character issues. you have the wrong people in the wrong locations for the wrong reasons. albeit, maliki would say for all the right reasons. i would argue that within the isf, they probably have a number of fighters and number of very good leaders at significant positions. but you end up with, kni five o cam bat ineffective. the reason we are there. so we can give maliki some time. as phil indicated. the broader concern is not only the caliphat techlt, the concern, baghdad may fall. maliki in exile. and winner becomes the winner. w...