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Could be more operations targeting high-value terrorists in idlib, syria. the targeting operations require forces on the ground. that will be harder to do as we withdrawal. for more, let's go live to nick paton walsh in iraq. nick, you've covered al baghdadi for quite some time. remarkable, this operation. any sense to cede more control to the russians may prevent these operations in the future? >> there's no doubt that the massively reduced footprint will have an impact on the u.s. ability to go after what remains of isis leadership. there was a key problem with donald trump's statement, wher...

For a few months and this happened with the president knowing about this raid and knowing about this mission and greenlight turkish incursion. they found him just within miles of the turkish border, so was turkey aware of him being there and why wasn't turkey notified? we made this invasion through iraq and not turkey. we lifted sanctions for that incursion that was green lit by the president and as we know there's still a meeting at the white house between president trump and president erdogan. >> all of that said is really important. he's the commander in chief and he gave the command the do...

Intelligence will remain critical. but we are no longer in a position to collect that because of the movement out of syria by both u.s. troops and the turkish incursion into northeast syria. i think they deserve more credit and more loyalty going forward because we need them to be our ongoing allies. >> and seth, baghdadi's was holed up in northwestern syria known as an al qaeda strong hold and al qaeda and isis necessarily cooperative. did his location surprise and what do you read into it? >> i think the location is very, very problematic. it is just a few minutes or so from the turkish bord...

Obviously as we have seen that video, they were on a tight location as we understand. all of this would point to obviously a very highly planned operation. it may have been just a few days in the planning or several months. we simply >> tony: until we hear more from the united states. you one that was conducted in an environment in the strategic sense, it was getting less and less benign by the day. since the u.s. president announced the withdrawal of the u.s. troops in a band of territory along the border with turkey, the precipitatoprecipit turkish incursion, undermining the potential for th...

Place for him to turn up. >> erin, what we do know, though, is there's been a realignment of the power structure there in that region as you're so close to with militias, russian forces and turkish forces, now, if you will, deciding who gets what. >> reporter: yeah. that's absolutely right, richard. i think the timing and all of this raising questions. the fact that this happened just weeks after the u.s. announces a troop withdrawal from northeastern syria triggering a turkish incursion. we're seeing ongoing fierce clashes between turkish forces and kurdish fighters. this despite the russian ...