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Taliban to the negotiating table? >> the word against isis is clear and the president has been clear, we will do fight isis and eliminate their capability to organize, raise financing, to plan new recruits to their fight to carry out terrorism acts roth world. that fight is progressing well. were well on our way to the feeding isis. we have taken the caliphate from them in iraq. over 70% of the territory has been recovered. none has been lost back to those forces. most 2 million displaced iraqi people have returned to their homes. in the fight in syria where the process of liberating raqqa whi...

The syrian civil war is back atop the agenda even though u.s.-backed forces may be close to liberating raqqa, the syrian capital. it's what isis calls its capital, in fact. i want to bring in cnn correspondent barbara starr. ending the battle winning the war not the same case, barbara. >> reporter: not at all, brianna. the u.s. could win the combat phase of the war but it's going to open up a whole new set of challenges. u.s. marines in syria firing artillery at isis positions. unprecedented video, much of it shot from a drone overhead, underscoring the growing danger for more than an estima...