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It seems that the ongoing operation led by malian security forces backed by the u.n., including a very small presence of u.s. special forces that were there quint decoincidentally, a others, that this operation is still ongoing. but as of now, according to the country's security minister, there are no more hostages. now, the death toll, the initial assessment of the death toll according to eyewitnesses that were involved in this operation as of now stands at 15. so, that would be a drastic jump from the three that we've been reporting throughout the course of the day. now, all of this informat...

The particular area. when it comes to the exact makeup of the kurdish forces, that's complicated in some degree. the peshmerga are very clear this is an operation led by them and other kurdish groups are involved in the trail end of that operation. they could move in once major clearing is done. here, we have seen evidence of one [ no audio ] >> looks like we have lost our connection there to nick peyton walsh reporting on a military operation which has been ongoing now for a number of hours as kurdish forces move in on the town of sinjar. joining us now with more on all of this, lieutenant ...

Place and to the best of our knowledge, was closely followed by our counterterrorism professionals was to adhere to this near certainty standard. and that near certainty standard applied to two things. the first near certainty that this was an al qaeda compound that was used by al qaeda leaders that turned out to be true. that assessment did turn out to be correct. the other near certainty assessment would be that no civilians would be harmed if this operation was carried out. unfortunately, that was not correct. and the operation led to this tragic unintended consequence. >> and there's very ...

Coalition with -- saudi arabia has built a coalition with egypt primarily and you have the new leadership in egypt run by the military that very much wants to flex its muscles and egypt just recently announced that it wants to lead a new -- effectively, a pan arab army. so we are at a real inflection point in the middle east. and i think we could see a lot of changing and very volatile dynamics in yemen. could i go back to one thing you were talking about about iran? please, yeah. >> it's teally weirder than you were describing. it's even more convoluted than the convoluted strategy you were b...

Since 2009. but diplomats were having sensitive discussions with intermediaries. one of the most violent men in the world behind bars for the first time in more than a decade. >> assassinated journalists and just some of the horrors directly connected to joaquin guzman. after a 13-year manhunt a joint operation led to guzman's capture at a resort on mexico's west coast. a landmark achievement and here's a quote. the criminal activity goes contributed to the death and destruction of millions of lives through drug addiction, violence and corruption. >> cnn's nick parker has more for us. >> one...