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Actions the way we're doing them is going to do a good job of clearing isis away from some of the areas where -- which they now occupy and which are vitally important for them to hold. but just conducting these kinds of operations is not going to take it the area away from isis permanently and they'll be back. so the secretary of state is right, it's not something significantly different, it's just pretty much more of the same. >> so there -- i mean the word "unilateral," they'll act unilaterally if they need to. we saw the last time when an american special ops lost his life, they were in sup...

Services committee, general -- i mean secretary of defense ash carter said that the u.s. will be sending a special expeditionary force to -- targeting forcing, is what he called it, to iraq to conduct unilateral raids against isis targets to conduct missions to rescue hostages, kill isil leaders, and essentially to assist kurdish and iraqi forces there inside iraq. now u.s. officials here say that this is very similar to what happened in october when a small special operations force accompanied kurdish fighters in a raid against an isis prison in northern iraq in which they freed some 70 priso...

Quarters with -- in an isis raid, when u.s. and kurdish commandoes raided a prison in iraq, an isis prison, but they also saw pictures of americans top secret delta force moving through that isis compound. so i think it has been very awkward for this administration to explain what exactly u.s. troops are doing against isis, what is their role, and i think we will hear more clarification coming out of the white house quite soon, explaining this broader approach, explaining what the limitations are, explaining why it's important to have american troops closer to the enemy that they're fighting a...

Death of master sergeant wheeler in that raid on the isis prison. that, in fact, u.s. forces are carry out missions, boots on the ground, involved in combat. and the indications are now that that is going to increase. the way the united states officials have described it is they're going to try to double down, redouble the efforts that have been working in the counter isis effort. again, bringing americans closer to combat. >> ron allen with breaking news. thank you very much. twint go to turkey. that's where richard engel is. nbc chief correspondent. this may seem not to be a change in u.s. p...

The iraqi prisoners freed during last week's commando raid by u.s. and kurdish forces are on an isis prison are now talking about their horrifying ordeal at the hands of isis. this is helmet cam video of the actual raid, released over the weekend. the crackle of gunfire heard throughout. kurdish officials now say the operation was carried out by 48 kurdish and 27 u.s. special forces. one of the americans, master sergeant joshua wheeler became the first american soldier killed in iraq since the u.s. withdrawal four years ago. richard engle joins us now from istanbul, turkey. the u.s. has al rel...