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Has been able to flourish, taking advantage of the security vacuum that has been created during the war. right now it's uncertain exactly what affect these air strikes will have on al qaeda. to give you a bit of comparison in 2016, according to monitoring groups, the united states carried out 38 such strikes. well, we're only a few months into 2017 and it looks like they're about at that number, martin. >> ian lee, i'm sorry for the pause there. joining us now from cairo. thank you very much. a dozen civilians may have been hit by a chemical weapons attack in mosul, iraq, this week. this is ...

The streets, they're playing a game of defense. you can't defend across germany, france and other countries over the course of a year, two years, three years enough to prevent an attack. this goes back to the core question. how do the americans and others eventually work with the syrians and the russians to end the civil war because as long as there's a security vacuum in syria that isis can take advantage of, you'll see a ripple effect in europe. you can't stop this stuff, don. >> i want to know, melissa, from you, what has changed in paris since the attacks. we had brussels and nice and fran...

Did this region really fall and succumb to all of the sectarianism. it's proceeded the arab uprising and the american invasion of iraq. but you know i think we would be lying to ourselves if we can't admit that iran and saudi arabia are just as they are in syria and lebanon and many countries in the middle east now, and yemen, are vying for power because there's a security vacuum. and i think it's important to remember that it was the iraqi war, the invasion of iraq that really allowed for a lot of these things to start to grow out of control and allow governments like saudi arabia and iran to...

Is going to be from previous experience within the saddam regime. >> how much nuclear material and chemical material is out there? we do know is is the syrian dictatorship has used chemicals weapons against its own people in the past and some say still doing so. isn't this regulated? isn't it controlled? how much of this stuff is out there? >> well, in terms of the chemical component, what's really troubling sort of the west and what will be troubling russia now is that security vacuum in syria. so we don't know how much chemical components the jihadists have got their hands on. likewise with ...

There is a security vacuum. >> and you undercored that there is no way to get any kind of humanitarian hearing aid to them, thank you, very much. and now the condemning of a barbaric act. a suicide bomber on a bike detonated explosives in front of a bank on saturday. they say the attack was on workers picking up checks. >> there was debate to the extent of which isis established a foothold in information and pakistan. we had seen elements of it in