i want to bring in ayman mohyeldin who knows this type of story and this part of the world well. n reaction such an important part of in equation. >> the first thing is going to be how the leadership of this country responds to the tragedy. you can see people gathering outside that building. there are some reports that there are also some similar demonstrations taking place in the capital amman. you can see a picture of the pilot and gives you a sense of how much jordan was mobilized behind this beyond r young pilot. you saw pictures of him being posted in cities across the country and people expressed their solidarity with him and his family. this is something that has really touched the nerve of every jordanian and going to cut deep into that society. it is going to put pressure on the king to address whether or not jordan's involvement is going to be in the same way as we've seen in the past several months. jordan also keep in mind and we talk about this sometimes in a big picture, jordan was one of the first countries to come out and call for the removal of the bashar al assad

and ayman mohyeldin joins me. and first of all, the u.s.rmed that she died in the way isis said she did but does this complicate the use of force knowing there are still hostages in isis captivity. >> reporter: it will make it a difficult situation for those advocating some type of placement of boots on the ground so to speak or a ground force that may involve other countries besides the united states. it also highlights and under scores the challenges that the u.s. and the coalition partners are facing this. and as you mentioned, the u.s. hasn't confirmed how she was killed. isis said she was killed in an air strike. and the jordanian government tried to put some water on that accusation on friday saying they don't believe she was killed as a result of a jordanian air strike but there is on the ground intelligence and in carrying out the air-strikes. in fact in a statement, bashar assad spoke and said whether or not the u.s. was communicating with him through third parties and how they were coordinating some of the air-strikes, if in fact

so thank you very much ayman mohyeldin. thank you. >>> and the president is expected to speak in indianapolis and he is addressing students there and be watching to see if he will speak out about isis. kristin joins us from the white house. do we expect any comment from the white house on the situation regarding the alleged killing of the american hostage and has the president spoken with the jordanian government? >> i would be surprised if we heard president obama address this or the white house before they have confirmation and the latest from the white house is they still do not have any evidence to corroborate these statements. this is a statement from the national security spokesperson who said we are obviously deeply concerned by these reports and we have not at this time seen any evidence that corroborates the isil claim, that is another term for isis. and nothing known that the president or the white house have confirmed this with the jordanian government but that is probably going on behind the scenes as the admini

. >>> and now joining me is ayman mohyeldin. and you have seen the video and as have i. and there is a marked difference just in the presentation of what we are seeing in that they are showing the killing of a hostage as opposed to before when they only showed the aftermath. talk about how that might change the policy here. >> this was by every word a gruesome video and unlike every gruesome video, this was not a beheading, it was grotesque showing the pilot being burned alive. and what is more disturbing, as we've seen in previous isis propaganda tapes, laden with messaging toward jordan and toward the jordanian king for his foreign policies in his region and his close relationship toward the united states and will try to drive the wedge that isis feels existed in the jordan population when it comes to foreign policy and the kingdom. as we heard from keir there are growing concerns within the family members of the pilot and others particularly conservatives within the jordanian establishment as whether the foreign policy of supporting the united states and combatting is

i want to bring in nbc's ayman mohyeldin. as people watch this play out, i think a lot of people are trying to understand the time line of this. how did this begin with two japanese prisoners and end up with a jordanian pilot executed? >> for the past several months isis has been not just with the japanese hostages, but american or british, either kidnap directly or buy from other terrorist groups who may have kidnapped foreign nationals, trying to gather as many as they can. we saw a short while ago, perhaps ten days ago, the release of a second video that purportedly showed kenji goto epa in that video there was evidence to suggest that the previous journalist who had been held by isis was executed. at that point the demands by isis that jordan release him began to surface. it was at that point subsequently after that video emerged that the jordanian authorities said that they would be willing to release her in exchange for the japanese hostage as well as the jordanian pilot seen on the video that was burned alive. in the p

and joining us now, ayman mohyeldin. killing or executing a woman violate islamic laws. >> even just generally? >> yeah. >> yeah absolutely just as a hostage? >> yeah. >> you can't kill anybody. you can't kill any innocent person. >> gender out of it. they are not supposed to kill anybody. but when it is a woman, does that take it further? >> just across the board, killing innocent people is forbidden, there is no tennant that justifies it and nothing that makes it remotely you know tolerable. >> ayman, how much of this is sis wanting to cause tension between jordan and the u.s. and how much of that is planned out to we would have friction between each other. >> that is difficult to answer. and this is a true story, because obviously isis makes very clear in every piece of video it puts out, it tries to create a wedge, and even in that 22-minute video was about policy and create friction between the alliance between jordan and the king. >> so there is treat behind every move they make. >> the movies and the narratives th

nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin joins us live in studio. let's talk about libya first, ayman. so much focus on syria, iraq now the headline is libya for the last two days. >> absolutely. libya is completely descended into state of civil war, no central government two competing governments and factions fighting for several months. in that vacuum isis has now emerged as a major player along with other extremist factions. the egyptian government as a result of killing of 21 christians wants the international community backed by united nations security council to take international action for intervention in libya. they want the international community to put together a coalition to deal with libya politically, militarily the same way they're seeing that coalition fight in syria. they're calling on the international community to not have a double standard when it comes to what's happening in syria and iraq and do the same in libya. >> the natural question is did the world keep its eye off libya and now we see the consequences of that? >> yeah. f

. >>> and joining me now is nbc foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin in new york and senior analystt global partners joining us by phone. first to you, let's talk about what we know from this isis claim, the claim on twitter, we are not naming the american woman at the request of the family and the u.s. at the white house and state department but we know isis is claiming that she has died. this is the first time to my knowledge that they have even mentioned to her. they gave name rank and serial number. all of her personal data but in all of these hostage videos over the past year and a half since she was held since august of 2013, they had never claimed her and never beparaded her and this was a cause of some encouragement to u.s. officials. >> indeed the hostage was never acknowledged by the islamic state and never named throughout the last year and a half. u.s. officials and others have mentioned that she might be held captive in syria, when she was allegedly kidnapped alongside -- but the group has never acknowledged it has been holding an american female hostage in its strongho

. >> joining me now is nbc's keir simmons from london and ayman mohyeldin from new york.ve got the isis conflict i want to talk to you about ukraine also. but first, isis what are the options as savannah was pressing the president because he said we were making progress against isis in iraq and syria and critics are saying to me and other people there's little evidence of any progress? >> well there is little evidence in the sense that most of the territory that isis took in this push across iraq last year isis is still holding. there have been 34 coalition air strikes just in iraq and syria against isis. they are if you like ramping up the pressure. there are reports as well that isis has lost many many fighters, that they have been seriously depleted by this campaign that includes those air strikes and also on the ground fighting in iraq by local forces. but it is a difficult to say that there's a break through at this point. when you talk to some of those in baghdad, for example, i was listening just last week to the iraqi prime minister saying that he believes that th

. >> nbc foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin is here with me now. ayman? >> hey joy. as you've mentioned, the jordanians today are carrying out what they've been doing throughout the last several months, which are air strikes. according to one senior u.s. pentagon officials, the jordanians were given their flight package that involved the targets they were meant to carry out. jordan's 20 fighter pilots bombed various targets in syria, predominantly targets close to raqqa. it is where a lot of their major resources have been held. the jordanian fighter pilots took off from jordan targeting those locations inside syria as they have been for the past several months. it was a very important symbol from the jordanian monarch and government that they're still very much committed to this fight. we also saw an image that was released by the jordanian government showing king abdullah in military fatigues. also, once again driving home the point that he is as commander in chief of the jordanian armed forces very much involved in the operational -- operations that are being carr

pictures of young syrian children being trained to join the ranks as cub fighters ayman mohyeldin hasesponse to this. you've been studying these videos and propaganda efforts and the state department will have a $5 million response team hooked with the uae. $5 million is a drop in the bucket. isis has 90,000 tweets a day. >> i think one of the challenges is not even measuring it with a dollar amount certainly that is one way to look at it but i think it's about the volume. what does $5 million get you. isis may not be spending that much money but what they do have are hundreds and thousands of people retweeting and generating buzz john line and rekruting people. we know that one of them had some communication with who is believed to be a member of isis a female recruiter, just before they disappeared in london. i think that's what caused the alarm bells to lead authorities to think they may be in fact going to join the group. >> do state department experts even with their arab allies have the language have the ability to connect with this group? >> well i think this is one of the cent

thanks very much, ayman mohyeldin.ppreciate it. >>> meanwhile in brooklyn, investigators are trying to piece together more information about the three men who appeared in court on wednesday accused of being lone wolf isis sympathizers who allegedly discussed plans to assassinate president obama and bomb coney island. msnbc's adam reince is in brooklyn. what's the latest on this case? >> what was most striking joy about these alleged want-to-be terrorists when they entered court yesterday was how young they looked. only 19 and 24 years old. the judge read them their rights. the prosecutors said these are outrageous threats that they were making. police commissioner bratton said, this is real, this is exactly the lone-wolf type of terrorist they've been talking about. back here at their apartment everything seemed to be normal. nothing out of the ordinary. they paid their rent on time, and their next hearing is on march 11th. joy? >> all right. adam thanks very much. >>> steve clemens is the washington editor at large fo

i want to turn it over to ayman mohyeldin, foreign correspondent.ing with jordan as they were trying to get a prisoner that's been held there released saying they had the pilot when they had killed him weeks before. this is a group that apparently now has showed some proof of death for the mueller family enough for them to feel their daughter is indeed dead. >> a group that's shown no compassion in any of the dealings with these individuals or for that fact governments involving any of the hostages it has had in the past several months. i think it is going to be very interesting in the coming days and hours to learn exactly, a, what proof of confirmation they provided the family, and more importantly whether or not that claim, to substantiate claim made it was a result of jordanian aircraft air strike was the result of that killing. these are important questions going forward that may shed more about the organization how they operate, and how they have been holding and dealing with some of the hostages. there are other westerners being held by isis

i am ayman mohyeldin. now headlines at the half.s killed by isis terrorists. japan has responded to new isis threats by ordering tighter security at airports and japanese facilities overseas including embassies and schools. >>> a volcano in guatemala has erupted and sent ash and rock over surrounding towns. no areas have been evacuated yet, but the guatemalan government urged people to take shelter and know the possible routes for evacuation. >>> and in hollywood, the movie "birdman" is flying high after it won the best director honor at last night's director's guild awards. >>> the northeast is preparing for another major snowstorm. boston still digging out from more than four feet of snow over the past two weeks, could see nearly two feet of snow in the coming hours. the slow-moving storm could linger through tuesday. last night albany, new york, felt the effects of the storm as snow moved in making travel treacherous on area highways and side roads. alex wallace from the weather channel joins us with the latest. alex, what can we

the jordanian pilot purportedly burned alive on video, msnbc terrorism analyst evan kohlman and ayman mohyeldinman, the jordanian reaction to this, king abdullah met with secretary kerry. president obama has been informed. they are still authentic ating it. the intelligence community and allies around the world horrified by this. what is the likely impact in the arab world by this escalation, if you will of isis in its propaganda mode to try to be the worst terrorists on the block? >> you're going to see two sets of reactions. one from within the kingdom itself over the past several weeks since this -- hands of isis. you saw the country rally behind the armed forces and behind the king and this individual posters of him have been put up all around downtown in jordan and elsewhere. there's going to be a tremendous amount of resolve from the jordanian government to continue with the push and be part of the coalition. at the same time in recent weeks there has been growing concern among the family of this pilot as well as his tribe. it's a pretty substantial and powerful tribe within the kingdom w

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ayman mohyeldin who spent years covering international aid organizations. ayman, those figures represent a 66% spike in the number of aid worker victims from the year before. why would it be it's getting even more dangerous for those trying to help? >> we're seeing conflict zoenls are becoming much more volatile and where there was once a line that somewhat kept humanitarian aid workers and journalists and others immune from that violence, we're seeing that line being less and less respected. more and more aid organizations and workers are being seen as an extension of many of their countries and as a result of even though they are independent and sometimes have nothing to do with their governments or foreign policy they are there to do good work those carrying out attacks are using the opportunity to strike at the countries of origins of these eight organizations. in other cases they know the aid workers coming from western countries are valuable commodities for kidnappers and ransoms and also driven from a commercial sense to try to kidnap these individual

joining me here is nbc foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin. you've been following each of the facets. tell us about the emerging role egypt is playing and the importance of making strikes in libya. >> you mentioned egypt carrying out air strikes for the first time targeting positions inside libya. the positions were in this town in the eastern part of the country. keep in mind libya over the past several months has descended into chaos. the country is split with two defacto governments but it seems to be an area that isis controls firmly and as a result of that egypt went after their weapons depots as well as some of the areas where they believe that isis fighters were training. this also comes as the libyan air force says it too carried out air strikes against the isis positions. when you look at the region you get a sign why as you mentioned europe is increasingly scared. europe is very concerned about this part of it right here and that is because a lot of immigrants and my grants try to get to europe through libya and tun tunisia. the coll

i'm joined on the phone by nbc foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin.ing said he would act swiftly and he made good on that. >> reporter: he sure did. actually, i mean the king actually was cutting the trip short and seemed

. >> we'll have reports from the white house and ayman mohyeldin. and moments from now i'll talked with retired general wesley clark who led forces in kosovo. and we'll start with the kurdish forces and isis in the town of irbil. ayme aymen. >> reporter: this began in early morning hours in iraq time and several dozen isis fighters con veshlged on the outskirts of irbil, in the out skirts of the country. most of the attacks involved small arms fire like rocket-propelled grenades but seems to be a well-coordinated ambush attack on this town to get a foot hold on irbil which is an important strategic city and in the heart of cuddish control in northern iraq. but within hours of this assault, coalition pounded the positions and the peshmerga forces on the ground were able to repel the isis fighters. and there has been reported that 30 or so isis fighters were killed and for now it seems that isis has been pushed back away from the kurdish frontlines and away from the territory that is predominantly held by the security forces backed by the u.s. and oth

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foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin joins me to explain all of this. >> what drew kayla to syria ishat were caught in a conflict of a humanitarian disaster that the united nations described as one of the worst in history. but the conflict in 2011 largely civilian protests against bashar al assad exploded across the area, refusing to relinquish power and said they were terrorists an the demonstrations became more military and those who supported the overthrow of assad, and the fighting became a full-blown regional war and a proxy war and the rebels began to splinter along ideologies with some groups drawing their ideology from extremists like al qaeda. as syria plunged into the civil war, sis -- isis seized their time and they quickly spread into syria where today they control large swaths around syria and iraq in their self-proclaimed islamic state. this map up here shows they are still firmly in control of damascus despite the opposition rebels, some of which the united states and allies are training and equipping, but the syrian rebels are fighting isis, and isis is battleing oppo

this, we'll look back at the 2005 coordinated suicide attacks in amman and here to dig deeper ayman mohyeldin. >> those were a turning point. the 2005 suicide bombs hit hotels frequented by diplomats and westerners. it attacked a wedding party as well. they call it the american 9/11. al zarqawi was the head of al qaeda in iraq which would later morph into isis. at the time they felt his tactics would go too far. and here is the tie to today. the woman that isis wanted in ex change for the pilot who was convicted in the 2005 in the attack. her suicide vest did not detonate. her husband was a successful bomber and she was on death row and she was slated to be executed. but publicly said they were willing to swap her for the pilot, the jordanian government said that today. and the other person killed was ziad cash owly and was also involved in the bombing. the people protested against zarquawi and the killing of the pilot did not lessen. they will become the lethal terrorist group, having fought the u.s. the group became battle hardened and now al qaeda in iraq set its sights on syria and moved

responsibility to stand up and fight back against an irresponsible reporting of a knucklehead of this ayman mohyeldin. >> let me ask you both this question, talking about brian williams, back to him. we talked about the rpg that did not hit his chopper. we talked about the issues and we played the comments he made about katrina. there's also an issue back in july 18th, 2006, in which he reports from a helicopter flying in a war zone in israel, and noticed off in the distance, he says six miles a katyusha rocket. i'll play that. and less than a month later he was on with jon stewart, and six miles, all of a sudden becomes 1,500 feet just underneath his helicopter. watch this report. >> the trails of smoke and dust visible out the window are where katyusha rockets have landed in this case, in the uninhabited israeli countryside. and in some cases they have set fire to the surrounding brush. the missiles are unguided and random and plentiful. then i notice something out the window. i saw the launch trail right there. from a distance of six miles, i witnessed a rocket launch, an orange flash and more smo

. >> ayman mohyeldin, thank you. >>> let's go over to capitol hill. big news there, too. the fight against isis a major topic today during confirmation hearings for the secretary of defense nominee ashton b. carter. he had tough questions, including this one from senator john mccain. >> do you believe that we need to have a strategy to combat isis? >> i believe i understand our strategy at this time and i also have the intention, again, if confirmed, to make it my first priority to go there. >> our kelly o'donnell has been following this on capitol hill. any surprise in the testimony so far? >> well one thing that i think stands out and it's not about isis but about the u.s. and the ukraine and its role to keep russia back. ashton carter said he would support our allies of the united states in ukraine and it's somewhat different than the white house position. the white house is reconsidering what it would do with respect to that. ashton carter who has a long history with the pentagon put down his own marker there. john mccain is the chairman of the armed services committe

ayman mohyeldin joins me with more. on top of all of this a group with all sorts of claims about isis had tweeted earlier and hacked in the "newsweek" twitter feed which has been been restored. we have a lot going on and other piece is that the uae joined the air strikes today from a base in jordan against isis in syria. this is escalating even as we have this terrible news about the last known american hostage being held by isis. >> andrea it really underscores how big of a problem the situation in syria has become. it's on a few different fronts one being isis and two being the humanitarian situation as a result of that and another point to keep in mind is the fact that president bashar al assad gave an interview today with the bbc in damascus which he pointed the finger at the international community, very much so for some of the countries who have been backing isis and saying he is still the major conduit through which the international community could combat isis. there's a lot of various moving pieces in all of th

our foreign koern ayman mohyeldin, these reported human rights abuses and mass trials that seem to beham trials and human rights groups complaining of crackdowns. we know of one incident last summer that killed more than 1,000 people are any of those infractions going to change anything? >> the short answer is no. in the past year what happened the united states has valued the current government in egypt to the point it is trying to combat terrorism. the united states has been very supportive of egypt's efforts and has been calling on the government in egypt to push ahead with reforms but the egyptian government is making an argument it is coming under attack. 26 of its soldiers were killed in massive suicide bombings there. the egyptian government is facing a dilemma with this rising terrorist threat backed by the insurgentcy but lost in the struggle are the human rights violations that are incritical conditionin increaseing and the government is cracking down on dissent big time. >> it's one of the hardest strategic relationships the united states has. there's the israel treaty they

joining me here is nbc foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin.he facets. tell us about the emerging role egypt is playing and the importance of making strikes in libya. >> you mentioned egypt carrying out air strikes for the first time targeting positions inside libya. the positions were in this town in the eastern part of the country. keep in mind libya over

ayman mohyeldin joins me with the latest. egyptian foreign min came to new york to meet with ban ki-moon heading here for the president and secretary of state's counterterrorism summit this week. what can egypt really do to go against isis in the middle of what is becoming a civil war in libya? >> you're right in the sense that it's somewhat limited in what it can do. as we've mentioned in the past libya is in a state of civil war. there are two governments and two factions competing with each other with battles on pt ground between these two rival governments, if you will. in the absence of a central government the egyptian government as well as other allies really don't have anybody to deal with that can exert control over the territory. and that is what has given the rise to isis in libya. egypt now wants to get the international community to deal with libya the same way it has dealt with syria in the sense that they want to get an authorization to use force and try to get european support behind it. countries like italy h

ayman mohyeldin joins us with the latest developments. let's go through the line. first off, some of the territory that isis is attempting to acquire in addition to iraqi officials saying 48 others captured by isis burned to death. >> it shows you how isis is capable of fighting multiple fronts, in the south or southwest part of iraq territory they controlal-baghdadi. we heard that they're combat or noncombat troops the u.s. are just there to be advisers supporters. gives you a sense of the danger they're in. they're a short mile or two from where the isis fighters are trying to overtakal baghdad ee. they're trying to take over the entire area. not only there, they're also fighting in the north against kurdish fighters. it is raising questions about efficiency and effectiveness of coalition air strikes. >> now we are at a point as i mentioned, nbc news confirming the u.s. will provide equipment and training for moderate syrian rebels. what will that mean? >> the u.s. hopes to get syrian rebels on the ground to fight isis and the syrian government. the u.s. is not g

joining me now, nbc news foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin. thank you for joining us as well. let's talk about the air strikes, and now reminiscent of what we saw from jordan after that pilot was burned. >> egypt has been struggling with terrorism in the northern sinai. there is in that part of the country an isis cell that declared itself they have been battling the egyptian military for several months carrying out killings against egyptian soldiers. egypt was contained to that fight in its own country, it wasn't part of the direct coalition to other arab countries. now it is involved in direct operations against isis in libya, and marks a sharpest ka ladies and gentlemen not only for the egyptian government but the fact that isis is openly declaring itself in libya. isis expanded in other countries, but to different degrees and different capabilities. when we saw video of 21 egyptians being murdered it marked a turning point for how much organizational foot print yis has in libya. >> we got this information in senior defense and military official tells nbc news the u.s. did

joining me live nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel, and ayman mohyeldin joins us in studio. richard, let me begin with you. we heard early on from isis after the barrage of strikes by jordan that kayla had been killed and now we have this confirmation. what more details do we know. >> reporter: we know something of the chronology. kayla mueller was based in turkey about a year and a half ago. she was a young humanitarian worker, 26 years old, decided she wanted to make it her life's work to help victims of the syrian civil war, she traveled into syria and then in august 2013 while volunteering at a hospital in aleppo province was captured by isis. we hadn't heard much from isis about her captivity, there were no videos no public threats, no images of her with a knife held to her throat like we saw with other american hostages. the family was doing its best to keep this case under wraps, had requested from the media not to disclose her name the fact that her hometown prescott, arizona, really to try to give negotiators the maximum leeway they could have so they could potenti

. >> jonathan deens the and ayman mohyeldin and michael sheehan, served as deputy commissioner of counterterrorism the 9/11 attacks. thanks for being here. jonathan, what is the latest you are hering from investigators there in new york about the arrests of these three men suspected of wanting to join isis? >> what we've heard from prosecutors, two of the three men confessed, admitted they were indeed intent on wanting to travel overseas to join isis and bought plane tickets and one was trying to board a flight to kennedy and other the had the flight book and they were involved. that according to prosecutors. we're also hearing, the fbi and immigration agents are running around speaking with others who are associated with these men to see if anyone else might have been connected to this plot. right now it appears there are three core actors one a money man and two men who allegedly wanted to travel overseas and join. but again, they are looking to see if any others were involved. most concerning is not just the fact they wanted to travel overseas but some of the statements that were made we heard

joining me now ayman mohyeldin, and author of "going to tehran" nina who is associate professor of international affairs, and clarence lausanne. a ayman, i'm wonders if the responsible z spobs are presidely what they meant to do. >> there's no do you. particular in the case of jordan the king came until pressure and there were a lot of questions whether jordan was going to back down or double down if you will in the wake of this tragedy. it seems by the government says they are repeating very clearly their message this is a fight against them it is a mortgage at threat to jordan and jordanians. i think if there was any doubt within the kingdom about the resolve of the king in the past i'd say 72 hours, that has been made clear that the country is still very much committed to these coalition air strikes. >> hillary, we have seen months -- years really but certainly recent months of the horrors coming out of isis, particularly with the use of video and social media, we have literally seen it why this moment provoking this kind of response? >> the strategy that the islamic state has had is extraord

ayman mohyeldin joins us with the latest developments. let's go through the line. in addition to iraqi officials saying 48 others captured by isis burned to death. >> it shows you how isis is capable of fighting multiple fronts, in the south or southwest part of iraq territory they controlal-baghdadi. we heard that they're combat or noncombat troops the u.s. are just there to be advisers supporters. gives you a sense of the danger they're in. they're a short mile or two from wh

ayman mohyeldin joins me from new york.nally something out of turkey. how did this change things? >> talks have been going on for some time. the u.s. made policy announcement in december. the key was to bring on board coalition members or allies to provide training facilities for training opposition members, including turkey jordan and qatar, saudi arabia are also providing facilities for training of these syrian opposition. the challenge is going to be for the united states to identify which members of the syrian opposition they want to train to make sure these individuals don't ultimately become enemies of the u.s. and coalition. the u.s. feels it has a vetting process in place to identify individuals, where they come from also to try to get biometrics on everyone that participates in this, but the key is to try to train the individuals with enough fire power to take on isis. one of the sticking points for turkey they wanted the united states to train the individuals and take on the syrian regime. not clear that will happ

for more of that part of the story, i am joined by ayman mohyeldin. where is isis now? a great question. certainly we brought this map to give you a sense how quickly isis is spreading. it is spreading in different levels. we have known isis is a group that has roots in iraq it spread into syria. that's where the group has been for the past several months operating out of. but there's also been sharpest sharp escalation in countries like libya and saw yesterday the murder of the 21 egyptian christians happened. it is there these two countries that isis perhaps has the strong else operational foot hold in africa, particularly in the sinai peninsula. when you look across the big region, you see isis declared an organization level, perhaps on a smaller scale in countries like algeria, and even as far away as afghanistan where afghan officials say they killed a senior member of isis involvement in recruitment. in saudi arabia yemen, lebanon, isis may not have operational foot hold but certainly have some support and some sympathy among local population. you look at the big

ayman mohyeldin, where do things stand with the jordanian pilot? for proof of life some kind of evidence that the pilot remains safe and is alive in order for this deal to go ahead. the jordanian government reaffirmed its commitment it was willing to trade one of the suicide bombers it captured back in 2005, that isis has been demanding. they are prepared to release that woman in exchange for the pilot. one of the major holdups from the jordanian side is there's no evidence or proof of life that the pilot is safe. once they receive that they're willing to go ahead with a swap if you will in exchange for that pilot. the jordanian government is under pressure within its own country, some questioning the involvement in this campaign against isis. nonetheless, the jordanian government said they will remain part of the coalition. >> so odd that the terrorist group would say they're willing to give it up if they give them this suicide bomber wannabe in jordan, and silence when they ask for proof of life. it is very concerning. >> reporter: that's the cha

joining us for the must read opinion pages ayman mohyeldin.g to read from graham's piece in "the atlantic." it says so much and here we'll start with this. the islamic state follows a variety of islam whose beliefs about the pat to the day of judgment matter to its strategy and can help the west know its enemy and predict its behavior. its rise to power is less like the triumph of the muslim brotherhood in egypt, the group whose the leaders in schalk state consider prostates. than david car resh or jim jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people but some 8 million. muslims can reject the islamic state, nearly all do but pretending that it isn't actually a religious millenarian group with the theology that must be understood to be combatted has already led the united states to underestimate it and back foolish schemes to counter it. >> richard haass is nodding. again, i think this is going to be extraordinarily influential article because it's one of the first times we've had somebody a reporter look at this situat