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Gathering. sunni troops asking for arms. u.s. air strikes will continue. cnn learned u.s. military commanders have for now ruled out special forces on the ground to help pick out targets inside ramadi. but after the successful raid in syria that killed an isis leader and captured his wife more ground missions could happen as the u.s. targets leaders who have specific intelligence. >> they ran hostage operations of the situation faced by kayla mueller along with two f 0 our journalists there, sof cloft and foley. if fact they were killed and the commander in isis presumably had a hand in it sin...

Atrocities. many say isis very much on the march forward. they have a lot of abandoned iraqi arm our the security forces left in their wake not justton for anbar but also to baghdad for which they are increasingly close. >> thanks so much for that. also, a big gain to tell you about for the coalition fighting isis. we are learning more about that weekend raid in syria involving u.s. army delta force that killed a top commander and captured his wife cnn is live with more. what do we know about this? >> alisyn the administration is characterizing this kill as a serious blow to isis. the national...

So you put this whole intelligence picture together plus his wife and her knowledge potentially of hostage operations that isis had been involved in and you see why the u.s. wanted to get him. this was supposed to be an intelligence operation. they were going to try and get both of them alive and interrogate them. even though he died in this operation, the wife is undergoing interrogation and we are told now that the u.s. special forces delta force, army delta forces captured a good deal of intelligence communications laptops cell phones that kind of thing. now they're going through it all. >>...

Names that the u.s. government put out two weeks ago offering millions of dollars in bounty on their heads. . according to reporting president obama planned this raid or conceived of it after the killing of the last american hostage who was killed. there's been a lot of discussion that he might have had a key role if her personal abduction and captivity, but also in the hostage ring at large. i'm waiting to see what more comes out on the story. >> let's bring bob baer in this. do you agree that perhaps abu sayyaf was not the intended target of the raid or if you think he was? because our justi...