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Trying to find new ways to pressure the militant group. cnn's barbara starr looks at the u.n.'s options and obstacles in this region. >> reporter: american f-16s at anytime could begin to strike isis from their base here at incirlik turkey. some strikes may be aimed at the tushish-syrian border where isis forces just moved in after al qaeda left. strikes will try to pave the way for putting u.s. trade, moderate rebels back in to syria after their unit was decimated in an attack. this has been a difficult process, to vet these people, train them and get them back in to what is a fluid, dynamic ...

Border after al qaeda left. strikes will try to pave the way for putting u.s. trained moderate rebels back into syria after the unit was decimated in an attack. >> this has been a difficult process. to vet these people, to train them, to get them back into a very fluid dynamic situation. >> reporter: the penn trying to figure out how to salvage the training effort. more than 70 additional rebels may finish their training in the next few weeks. >> we need on find a group willing to be our boots on the ground. and the ones we've chosen right now are not it. >> reporter: defense secretary ash car...

Province to the west and get them into some sort of training effort get them some additional weapons and some additional equipment that too is going very slowly. the sunnis obviously very skeptical of the u.s. staying power over the years in iraq. they have a lot of skepticism. they are not seen as being absolutely key once again years later after that sunni awakening in anbar province during the initial years of the war. the sunnis are seen as key to getting the u.s. to get the iraqis to get anbar province back. if you can't get anbar back you can't get nor, you can't get to mosul. it's got t...

Allow the u.s. to take on isis terrorists in syria. but even as the votes were being counted there was fresh evidence that the battlefield is global. abc's karen travers has more. >> reporter: the senate approved president obama's plan to train and equipment moderate syrian rebels to fight isis. >> the strong bipartisan support in congress for this new training effort shows the world that americans are united in confronting the threat from isil which has slaughtered so many innocent civilians. >> reporter: but there's deep skepticism about how this will work. >> our ambassador to iraq and syri...

Scotland. hamish macdonald reporting. thank you so much. both the senate and house have passed a law that would allow the u.s. to take on isis terrorists in syria. but even as the votes were being counted there was fresh evidence that the battlefield is global. abc's karen travers has more. >> reporter: the senate approved president obama's plan to train and equipment moderate syrian rebels to fight isis. >> the strong bipartisan support in congress for this new training effort shows the world that americans are united in confronting the threat from isil which has slaughtered so many innocen...