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Affiliates near the niger/mali border. there has been conflicting information about what the american troops were doing at the time of the ambush and how they came under fire from the isis insurgency. >> obviously there is something that they even don't know at this moment. >> reporter: another key question, why was the body of sergeant la david johnson found nearly a mile away from the scene of the ambush? it's one of the many questions that sergeant johnson's widow still has today. >> i don't know how he got killed, where he got killed or anything. i don't know that part. they never told me....

Defense secretary james mattis, officials say, is discouraged by the lack of information he's received from his own people on the isis attack in niger that killed four u.s. soldiers and injured two more. the 12-member u.s. army team was meeting villagers in a town on the mali border. they were walking back to their vehicles which were not armored when up to 50 isis affiliated fighters attacked them with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. the americans fought back, but were not only armed with light weapons such as rifles. >> there had been nearly 30 trips along this route already, so ...

And so we do not have the accurate information yet. we will release it as rapidly as we get it. >> reporter: two weeks after the ambush, defense secretary james mattis is discounselored by the lack of information he's received from his own people on the isis attack in niger that killed four u.s. soldiers and injured two more. the 12-member u.s. army team was meeting villagers in a town on the mali border. they were walking back to their vehicles when were not armored when up to 50 isis affiliated fighters attacked them with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. the americans fought back,...

Under investigation. we and the department of defense would like to know what we are talking about before we talked and so we do not have all of the ak crate information yet. we will release it as rapidly as we get it. >> reporter: two weeks after the ambush, discouraged by the lack of information that he's received from his own people on the isis attack in niger that killed four u.s. soldiers and injured two more. the 12-member u.s. army team was meeting villagers in a town on the niger/mali border. they were walking back to their vehicles when up to 50 isis members attacked them. the america...

U.s. soldiers 13 days ago. multiple u.s. officials describe a scene of confusion during that october 4th attack involving some 50 isis-affiliated fighters near the mali border. the soldiers killed include two green berets, also staff sergeant jeremiah johnson and sergeant la david johnson. among the many questions that the pentagon is now asking, did intelligence officers miss any warning signs about this isis-affiliated group in the area and how did one of the soldiers get left behind? cnn's barbara starr has more for us from the pentagon. >> reporter: 25-year-old sergeant ladavid johnson lef...