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Helicopters brought in nearly 30 u.s. forces and 40 kurdish troops. the u.s. were not meant to enter the walled compound or directly engage the isis fighters but when kurdish forces inside the come pound were your wemed the u.s. made the decision to enter the fire fight. major sergeant wheeler was shot in the compound and trance importanted to the hospital where he later died. when it was over the u.s. helicopters overhead destroyed the compound. under current rules of engagement, they're allowed to return fire when they or their partner forces come under attack. >> when a fire fight ensued, t...

Of people they were very, very worried about in june and july. that has died down a little bit. another thing that he talked about, wolf, is the fact that they've noticed perhaps a dissipation in the number of americans who are trying to travel overseas to join isis. he talked about for a period there was nine americans a month who were trying to travel overseas to join isis. in the last three and a half months it has gone down to about six. now, it's not known whether this is a long-term trend, whether this is something that's just temporary or whether people are hiding better. and that's one...

Supporting. i will say this in distinction to your prior guest, and that is i think the regime very much does this thing which is between terrorist groups and the more moderate opposition, and that is that bashar assad has always wanted this to be a fight between he and the terrorists. and so he has concentrated his firepower on the moderates to effectively make it so that if he can annihilate the moderates, then it really is a choice between he and the terrorists and the russians now seem to be bought into that strategy. so by the russians, if they're going after the moderates, if they can fu...

But the nature of warfare over the last ten years, the places we've been going into don't have air forces. the taliban don't have an air force. the insurgents within iraq don't have an air force. and isis and al qaeda don't have an air force. that's not the issue. going back to the remarks that senator mccain made this morning, what i find a little bit confusing at the moment is is that right up until the point the russians went into syria and started these airstrikes, a lot of what was prevailing the news we've spoken about this was division 30 which were these u.s.-backed rebels -- >> right....

Where isis forces were trouble ling today opinion -- were troubling today. >> good morning. >> this is an operation that the russians are carrying out, what kind of weapons are they using and what does that tell us? >> well, they have air attack units and they don't have any air force. >> right. >> they don't have the precision ammunitions that we do. the targeted areas don't have any isis in them. up got to think about how this operation actually goes.