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>> first of all, with respect to tikrit and this is actually true, the more general answer to your question our troops that are there are in the location that's we've previously identified, there to train, advise, and assist. there are not jtax embedded with security forces and were not with n tikrit. we're still able to be effective in providing air support to iraqi forces because we do have americans in their command centers, and practiced the methods by which we would ensure that the targets that were given to us were valid targets, do everything that we usually do to

Christians. it happened last week at the university. today kenyans taking to the streets of nairobi. they are angry about reports that took police seven hours to arrive at the scene of the attack. >> the protesters are also demanding better campus security. today in a kenyan court, the suspects in the terror attack making an appearance. police have accused the suspects of supplying guns to the four gunmen who carried out this vicious attack at the university college. the gunmen were killed by security forces and today, the court granted police 30 more days to investigate the suspects before of...

Standing on a truck and it looks like they're posing with somebody's severed head. in another image from the same instagram user you've can see a body on the ground there nearly 3,000 u.s. soldiers are in iraq training troops and providing secure not training them to cut off people's heads. the pentagon requested 1.6 billion of our dollars to support the iraqi and kurdish forces. easterly today the accept departments spokeswoman called the report disturbing and says the u.s. government has no plan to launch its own investigation. this comes as iraqi troops closed in on tikrit. we're hearing ov...

Be cleaning houses so we can live. >> reporter: so what do we know about 19-year-old muhammed musallam? we know he lived in east jerusalem, palestinian descent. his family says he was a funny guy, a fun-loving guy who was a volunteer fireman. they say 3 1/2 months ago he vanished. they found out he traveled to syria to fight for isis. they say he was duped into believing that he would be living the good life that he was promised women, money, cash and cars. of course that turned out not to be the case. they say when they spoke with their son via skype, he looked like a different point. he had ...

Iraqi forces are pressing ahead with their offensive to retake the city of tikrit from isis. the joint military forces say they're now in control of the city's military hospital. troops have been steadily advancing on tikrit the birthplace of saddam hussein. it fell to isis last june. iraqi forces say isis fighters are retreating toward the center of the city. but today isis launched a new military offensive on another iraqi city ramadi. the city is being attacked, quote, from all directions. let's go to our senior international correspondent ben wedeman who joins us now from baghdad. ben, how...