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I'm christine romans. john berman is taking the day off. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. isis on the rampage seizing control of the ancient city of palmyra. the two stunning victories forcing the government to reassess the terror strategy. the focus is securing the province went of baghdad. i want to bring in senior correspondent arwa damon. i want to talk about the history and the city which was taken by isis. how important was it and what is happening? >> reporter: palmyra is stunning. syrian government saying prior to the victory by isis they managed to move out the

Syria and this happened back in february. right? >> yeah. this is a story we've been following for a while now. very tragic where isis took up to 300 of these christians hostage. these are sunnis who have been needed in these areas for thousands and thousands of years. right now in syria these christian leaders are in negotiations with isis to try to get these poor christians released and they are demanding up to $30 million. again, part of the two-prong strategy that isis has been following and sucks seeding is asking demanding these exorbitant ransom fees and financing their terror strategy ...

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>>shepard: bottom of the hour and time for top of the news. the afghanistan president karzai dishing out hard criticism of the terror strategy if afghanistan. in a meeting with visiting german parliament speaker he said there should be a review of the strategy because the experience of the last eight years showed us the fight in the villages of afghanistan has been in effective apart from causing civilian casualties. well, the comments come as nato reports two separate roadside bomb attacks if southern afghanistan killing seven american service member and as washington steps up the pressure on...