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Strikes in mosul killed six militant leaders and took out an isis headquarters on friday. the fight for western mosul has driven more than 46,000 people from the city. 46,000. united nations fears that number could reach a quarter of a million. an al qaeda affiliate in yemen is being hammered by u.s. air raids. the pentagon says it's conducted more than 30 strikes there thursday and friday. groens were u drones were used and at least one high member was targeted. these are the first since the controversial raid in january. several civilians and u.s. navy s.e.a.l. were killed then, but u.s. o...

U.s. taking action for the first time based on intelligence recovered in the january raid in yemen that killed a navy seal. sources telling cnn the u.s. is now looking to track and locate hundreds of people with ties to al qaeda. those contacts are part of the recovered intelligence some of these people are believed to be in the west, though not in the united states. cnn's barbara starr with more now from the pentagon. >> reporter: dave, christine, u.s. officials are insisting to cnn that they did get valuable intelligence from that raid back in january that killed the u.s. navy seal and led t...

Intended, there are a lot of animals that live across that wall, too. they want to make sure there is space between the wall so they can have the migration of animals if not the migration of people. >> there are rivers over there, over the border. will they have employees to build it. plenty of issues. the u.s. taking action the first time based on intelligence recovered in the january raid in yemen that killed a navy seal. they are looking to track and locate hundreds of people with ties to al qaeda. those contacts were part of the recovered intelligence. some of these people are believed t...

And certainly at this point in time the australians believe that the u.s. needs to stick by it. >> you heard president trump call them illegal immigrants who are in a prison right now. ryan, you're over at the pentagon for us. you're getting some new details on the deadly yemen raid. what are you learning? >> that's right, wolf. we're actually starting to learn a little bit about the sequencing of events when it came to granting the authorities to conduct the raid. we've already been told donald trump had admitted it. planning had gone months into the past. we now know central command actually...

This event with former vice president walter mondale, spoke in some detail about the decision that was made by president obama in consultation with his inner circle, to go forward with that raid back in 2011. let's play how the vice president set that scene today. >> we sat in the cabinet room and at the end of the day, making the decision, he said, now, i want everybody's opinion, and everybody went around the room and there were only two people who were definitive and were absolutely certain. leon panetta said go, and bob gates, who's already publicly said this, said don't go. so as we walke...