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Ground combat against isis rather than just helping out the iraqis or syrian rebel groups to do that fighting on their own. so first it was u.s. air strikes against isis in iraq and syria. then it was u.s. troops on ground in iraq in an advising and training capacity against isis. then of course, it was u.s. special operations raids in syria and in iraq. and now it is apparently u.s. ground combat direct action on the ground by u.s. forces and not just in iraq but in iraq and in syria, as well. this seems like a biggest calation, like a big policy change to be announced in a pretty soft spoken...

>> my sympathies to the family of the fallen soldier. the fact that we're working with the kurds directly that's an encouraging sign to see that. it would be nice to give them weapons. >> today it sounds like we're conducting more of these missions and ash carter said he expects to do more of these missions. >> well have 3500 troops there. they are in advisory and training capacity. when missions are under way, advising can be behind the lines but things don't always go as

They say absolutely. the u.s. has been loathe to talk about any kind of training missions they have there or if they have any boots on the ground there. clearly the u.s. wants to maintain their only presence will be with drones. we know from yemeni officials the last few years there is a small presence of u.s. and british troops there in a training capacity for the yemeni counterterrorism forces. >> appreciate that. >> a bomb went off in pakistan today, at least 30 people killed. police are convinced this was a suicide bombing. this happened at the funeral for a police officer shot to death ju...

Noontime, just two hours from now, here in atlanta, another republican is jumping into the race for president. who is it, but exactly who is herman cane, anyway? a suicide bomber and possibly even two striking an afghan military hospital. six people dead. taliban, though, claiming responsibility for attack and also saying that the death toll is a whole lot higher. in kabul for us. listen to what he told me last hour. >> at this point, we're told that they don't believe any americans were in that hospital. if americans would have been in there, we're told, it might have been just for a traini...

Getting from officials. still some confusion as to exactly what went on, how many people were in there. some intelligence officials here are suggesting there might be another suicide bomber still in that hospital on the loose trying to get away from security officials. we're trying to sort out all those details. this comes at a time when fear what the taliban might do is at a high. they said they're going to go after very high-profile security targets. they've been doing so, and the fact they've done so today just going to raise questions about how prepared afghan security officials are here t...