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Of israel. the new iranian base is located near syria's capital and operated by the special operations arm of iran's islamic revolutionary guard. these images show the two new white hangars roughly 20 by 30 yards used to house short and medium-range missiles, a similar iranian base in syria was destroyed by the israeli military in december. on capitol hill the top u.s. military commander in the middle east said iran has ramped up its support to its proxy forces in syria and yemen since the nuclear deal included 1.7 billion in cash. >> the increasing not just quantity but quality of their balli...

Our u.s. intelligence agencies that russia meddled in the 2016 election which, of course, remains the subject of much investigation in washington. but secretary of state rex tillerson, speaking in vienna this week, cited another issue entirely. >> in syria we can have differences in other areas, but when one country invades another, that is a difference that is hard to look past. or to reconcile. and we've made this clear to russia from the very beginning, that we must address ukraine. it stands as the single most difficult obstacle to us renormalizing a relationship with russia which we badly...

End of the cold war. meantime the kremlin responded angrily today to the new u.s. military strategy released by the chairman of the joint chiefs calling it quote confrontation stall. >> since the last national military strategy was published four years ago, global disorder has trended upward while some of our comparative advantages have begun to erode. >> reporter: russia is mentioned seven times in the 24-page strategy even more than isis. quote russia does not respect the sovereignty of its neighbors, and it is willing to use force to achieve its goals. russia's military actions are undermin...

Accept these changes, but you have to. and the country has moved forward as a unit. >> the more things change the more one thing stays the same. the need for american heroes willing to put it all on the line on the front lines of combat. >> it doesn't matter how many bombs you drop or how much -- how powerful your air force is. unless you have boots on the ground there, that's the only way to hold terrain. >> we're using proxy forces. we're using drones smaller footprint. you think that can work for the future of war? >> you can fight a war that way. you cannot win a war that way. it's always ...

Jeremy scahill, also the author of the book, dirty wars, the world is a battlefield. this looks amazing. let's start, first of all, with the book. and what, you know, the overall unveiling is in the book. what we don't know about what's going on around the world and what we're trying to carry out. >> this book tells the story of how a very popular democratic president barack obama who by trade is a constitutional lawyer expanded some of the most egregious secretive aspects around the world expanding drone strikes, using proxy forces and mercenaries, working with war lords in somalia. and expan...