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Now i see that we are shooting planes down from a government that is also fighting isis that is representing the shiites. so is the main threat in syrials the assad regime, or is it isis? sincerely, i don't know., >> it is like the last year of the second world war. we are all fighting the nazis, but we know they are finished. a lot of maneuvering in the last year was to try to figure out what it would look like after the nazis. now, the main enemy is about to be driven out of mosul, iraq, will be cleared of them. what is going on now is the encircling of raqqa, their last stronghold based in ...

That that doesn't happen. that is why we attacked the forces of assad, who are hitting our allies on the ground, who are the kurds, and there are the syrian rebels, who together with the kurds, are closing in on raqqa. our objective, you were asking earlier, what is our objective in the region. it is simple. we don't want to see assad have a puppet regime which would be run by iran and russia, and control of all of syria. we don't want them to inherit the isis territory. we would like to see that held by pro-western, pro-saudi, sunni forces. and that would mean one settlement would be that you...

That doesn't happen. that is why we attack the forces of assad, who are hitting our allies on the ground, who are the kurds, and there are the syrian rebels, who together with the kurds are closing in on raqqa. our objective, you were asking earlier, what is our objective in the region. it is simple. we don't want to see assad have a puppet regime which would be run by iran and russia, in control of all of syria. we don't want them to inherit the isis territory. we would like to see that held by pro-western, pro-saudi, sunni forces. and that would mean one settlement would be that you get a re...

Effectively is that raqqa is right on the river, and our forces are fighting there, we're sporting them with fire, and here is the problem, if you want to put an air strike in on raqqa, you won't be able to do it without flying west. thus exposing our aircraft. >> we would need to go west to drop a bomb there. what does it say to you if the russians are potentially stopping them. >> i think it will be that we will use the deconfliction line. we have the capability of shooting things down over the r

And syrian peace talks continue in geneva. we learned from baghdad, u.s. army helicopters airlifted syrian fighters to within 28 miles west of raqqa. they're starting to close in on raqqa, shepard, while u.k. police are treating this as a terrorist incident, it's not known who is responsible. we've been told not to jump to conclusions about which group, if any, might be responsible for this. they're looking at the possibility that this could be a lone wolf attack. >> shepard: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. members of the freedom congress say they have enough house to kill it in the hou...