they are based in erbil, iraq, right now. and some of these troops will now begin working from their base in erbil, going into syria, for days, perhaps weeks at a time, to advice the -- what the pentagon has identified as what they call the syrian arab coalition. and that is basically a loose group of groups that the u.s. has been working with, members about 5,000, mostly in northern iraq around raqqa where isil has its de facto capitol. and they are the group that the united states dropped 50 tons of -- ammunition and arms to last week. and mostly what they will be doing is advising and assisting, but they are also be accompa accompanying the troops occasionally on joint missions like we saw last week, so that means, yes, they will be in a line of fire, in a direct combat role occasionally, but their main mission is to enable the local forces, particularly since the united states has now armed them with more fire power, and they are hoping they can keep pressure on the forces in raqqa. the strategy is to keep the isil forces

erbil is a very orderly well-managed city. kurds have made the most of their opportunity for self-rule. its progress is threatened by the islamic state. in order to continue to develop its society an economy and be a fuller security partner with the united states we can't sit on the sideline. we need to step up and work more closely in all the areas nancy and i have touched upon. i will pause there, ask jonathan if he has any questions and we can open it to the floor. >> thanks very much. i will take advantage of the moderator's prerogative to at least one question anyway. to aspire to have chief to achieve independence and to accomplish the steps that you have set out in your report but, setting down this path in the midst of a war with no apparent end in sight is a everest-sized challenge. time frame is a vital element. can you talk about how you see that and how you avoid major risk of another internal conflict erupting between baghdad and kurds would eliminate any chance of liberating mosul which would be heavily dependent

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elizabeth palmer reports from erbil, iraq. captured by a helmet camera, prisoners are helped along by kurdish forces. in the background you can hear constant gunfire as kurds and special american forces battle isis fighters who ferocious initial resistance killed master sergeant wheeler. there is a glimpse of a huge isis flag. and jail cells built inside the house of a tribal leader. when the prisoners first came out, 69 of them in all. they were patted down by kurds, but you can hear there is american backup. >> hey, hold it right there. >> reporter: these are not the prisoners the raid was designed to rescue. the kurds had hoped to find 20 of their own fighters who were kaurped and captured and paraded by isis back in february. as soon as the raid was finished, a aircraft flew over the compound and destroyed it with a bomb. in the video posted by isis shows the wreckage and the casualties of a ferocious battle. in all say the kurds, isis lost 20 men. along with the 69 prisoners, the raid also captured six live isis fighters

effort in support of the kurds to defend erbil in 2014 to keep isis from overrunning that city. the international community has an interest in making iraqi kurdistan a bulkwark of stability. iraq is well armed from u.s. weapons. and the peshmurgs a model. and now first our recommendation for the kurdistan regional government is to strengthen its own ability to take on these tasks. the ministry for affairs should enhance the civilian control of the military and must transform the peshmurga into a professional army by defining salary structures and pay salaries on a regular basis and offering regular pensions and other retirement benefits. it should organize peshmurga from rival parties into unified brigades. and we should -- it should support the ministry efforts to create nonpartisan battalions in which new recruits do not affiliate by political party. recommendations to the international community with respect to the security against isis would be, first, to support a more unified effort in both syria and iraq to defeat isis through cooperation among kurdish groups with the nec

. >> clarissa ward is joining us live from erbil in northern iraq.urdish fighters getting any help from the iraqi military? they obviously have had their problems with the iraqi military. what do you see on the ground there? >> reporter: no. the syrian kurdish fighters are not getting any assistance from the iraqi military. the iraqi peshmerga does have some cooperation with the iraqi military, but the syrian kurds, the only real cooperation and coordination and support they're getting is from the u.s. and i dao thio think there's a distinction to be drawn when we're looking at what the kurdish fighters we spent time with and what the u.s. is hoping they will want. kurdish fighter wez spent time with are really focused, wolf, on establishing a contiguous, autonomous surdish seeking independent region. and the u.s.'s focus is of course to get the kurdish fighters to take the fight to raqqah to launch an offensive on isis' stronghold. from what we saw, the ypg's focus and priority simply isn't on taking the fight into areas that are not kurdish areas.

flown to erbil where he died of his wounds. the pentagon press secretary refused to call it combat and denied the operation violated the president's order mandating no u.s. boots on the ground. >> this was authorized by the secretary of defense. specifically under our operation inherent resolve mission. specifically the campaign to defeat isil to support to iraqi security forces, which includes the kurdish peshmerga forces. so it was within this operation they were acting. >> the american forces that have been deployed to iraq do not and will not have a combat mission. i will not commit you and the rest of our armed forces to fighting another ground war in iraq. >> it's notable brett that the president did not order this operation. the elite u.s. commando killed today is the first american service member to die on the ground as part of the anti-isil fight. brett? >> a noncombat gunfight. jennifer griffin at the pentagon, thank you. the commander-in-chief is rejectsing the latest congressional plan to fund the military. a short

others help staff a joint command center here in the city of erbil. theeission includes target spotting, helping to coordinate airstrikes, and also going on joint operations like the raid on the isis jail last week that killed master sergeant joshua wheeler. the kurds say they're hoping for morereoint rates likik that and also further c@operation. >> pelley: elizazeth palmer reporting for us tonight in thanks, liz. so for insight into all of this, we'll going to michael morell, former number two at the c.i.a. andd our cbs news senior security contributor. michael, how much difference does it make to have 50 u.s. special operations forces on the ground in syria? >> scott, it doesn't sound like much but i think it's going to make a significant diffefence r two reasons. one is these special forces will be with syrian kurdish fighters who are right up against the heart of isis geographically. they're up against the center of mass of isis. and secondly,y, the special forces will, i think, just as they have in iraq, make these fighters better strategically

commandos are going to be deploying to northern iraq inn inn inner -- in erbil.urkey is going to be very suspicious of any u.s. moves to aid kurds whether they be in northern iraq or syria. >> anything else on what the white house is planning to do to up the anti-against isil. >> they are sending in more armaments. deploying to the nato air base on turkish soil, deploying a-10s the close air support -- i'm sorry they are known as the tank killers. air-to ground fighters. as well as more f-15s to carry the fight against isil within syria. >> mike viqueira from the white house. mike, thank you. >>> the peace talks on syria have concluded in vienna at this hour. more than a dozen foreign ministers, including secretary of state john kerry met today to discuss how to end the conflict. several leaders emerged saying they have agreed to resume talks two weeks from now also in vienna. activists say government missiles struck a busy market in a damascus suburb. mohammed jamjoom has more on those talks in vienna. >> reporter: we were expecting to see french foreign ministe

you.s kurdish first. >> live from erbil, thank you. >>> and good morning. carol costello. house republicans are gathering in washington this morning, meeting behind closed doors preparing to nominate a house speaker to lead their party. but a world away in chicago it is a very different day for a man who once held that powerful job. right now the former house speaker dennis hastard is inside the federal courthouse in chicago. expected to plead guilty about lying about millions of dollars in hush money. ryan young is following the story. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. and think about this it's astonishing comparing what he's been charged with with with the powerful office he just held. we actually have a crew on the inside here because he just walked into court. we arrived around 7:20. but i've been told he just walked in. and we're told he will plead guilty by trying to hold several large payments to a man. he was trying to pay up to $3.5 million to this person to keep the allegations quiet. this all stems back to when hastert has some sexual abus

i am now in erbil in the semiautonomous part of iraq.ricans work very closely with kurdish forces based in this operation. the kurds thought that they had many of their fighters kidnapped by isis held at this isis prison. the kurds asked for american help. the americans studied the situation and believed that the hostages at this isis prison were about to be executed. that mass graves had already been dug. a few executions had already taken place over the last -- in the 48 hours leading up to when this mission was launched. the green light was given. american helicopters took off with kurdish forces inside. they landed near to the prison complex. kurdish forces went in first. they got into a fire fight. then master sergeant wheeler and according to secretary carter in that bite you just played one other special operations commando played a decisive role in turning the tide of that battle. other commandos, american delta force, went into the house and they successfully killed about 15 isis guards, took another 5 or so isis guards captive

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in erbil in northern iraq now back in london.w these kurdish fighters who are trying to deal with these isis troops in northern syria. is this white house move now to send up to 50 u.s. combat troops, commandos, if you will, is it really going to have a significant role? >> well, it's hard to really see, wolf, what kind of an impact such a small amount of advisers could have, other than as we were just saying, training, helping them out with tactical procedures, but what they really need from all experience on the front lines, talking to these fighters, what they don't have, are heavier weapons, armor-piercing weapons, body armor. armored vehicles. if we're talking about potentially sending this newly formed coalition into raqqah, which is an isis stronghold, an arab stronghold, predominantly kurdish fight it's going to take more than a few dozen advisers to vi real impact. my guess personally based on the time spent on the ground would be that these advisers are there more at first to really just get the lay of the land, to see

. >> reporter: the special operations forces are expected to be sent from erbil, iraq, across the border into this area of northern syria. the u.s. will use f-15 jets to strike targets around raqqa, the isis capital. the u.s. wants anti-u.s. forces to be able to take back the city. the top u.s. special operations commander recently underscored what the u.s. troops can provide. >> a lot of our intelligence comes from talking to people on the ground. this is a very unique capability that special forces operates for us. they are out there with the people and talk to local leaders. >> they are out there with the people. they will be talking to people on the ground but 50 special operation forces, can they be a game changer? here at the pentagon, nobody thinks it's going to go that far. a sear serious skepticism, going to raqqa, the opposition fighters being able to retake the city of raqqa, almost everyone believes it could be a long way off. >> barbara starr, thank you very much. i want to go to nick paton walsh who is near the syrian border on the turkey side. >> reporter: the theory is th

richard engel, nbc news erbil. >> the guy who claimed to have worked for the cia for 30 years will be tried and he appeared on fox news channel and identified himself as a former cia operative. froms prosecutors say he made the same claim when applying for security clearances and defense contracting jobs. simmons pleaded not guilty in his arraignment and requested a jury trial. >> we are hearing the first calls for what appears to be going on as a woman is attacked and killed in her home. her ex-boyfriend is not charged with this murder and our chris lawrence has the latest from our newsroom. chris? >> you're about to hear two different calls. one from the man who was talking to amanda jones on monday night when she was attacked and stabbed in upper marlboro. the other is from jones' daughter who found her mom's body the next morning. >> he and her were talking on the phone and she was driving her car and then when she got to her house and was going in her house i heard her howling and screaming and stuff like she was tousling with somebody and then the phone went dead, and i've been

richard engel, nbc news, erbil, northern iraq. >>> there's now one less contender in the race for theocratic nomination for president. former rhode island governor lincoln chafee announced this morning that he is dropping out of the race. chafee broke the news at a women's forum hold by the democratic national committee in washington, d.c. >> as you may know, i've been campaigning on a platform of prosperity through peace, but after much thought i have decided to end my campaign for the president today. [ audience reacts ] thank you. >> chafee struggled to raise money and generate enthusiasm for his campaign and his exit leaves just three candidates for the democratic nomination. one of those candidates, of course, is former secretary of state hillary clinton. she also addressed the same women's forum. her appearance came a little more than 12 hours after she finished marathon testimony before the house select committee on benghazi. a hearing that was expected to last eight hours went much longer. nbc's tracie potts shows where you say things stood after the questioning finally wrappe

he and others paid thousands to help these two men get out of erbil, iraq, into europe and now into mexicorground railroad, a harrowing two-month journey. isis' grip on these men still visible. that fear is why they asked us not to show their faces. how brutal is isis? isis only knows language of beheadings, he says. >> why you? >> reporter: because we're christian, he says. these men are among hundreds who have escaped into mexico. once in tijuana, they enter the u.s. by applying for asylum. u.s. officials worry terrorists, including isis militants, could follow that same path to america. u.s. immigration and discuss stops enforcement would not directly address the underground railroad but released this statement, saying it would bring to justice individuals who compromise the integrity of our asylum system, potentially putting our country's security at risk. >> what do you say about the security issue? >> our national security should be priority number one, without a doubt. these are people being killed by isis. they are not isis. they are coming to america to run away from isis. >> repo

richard engel, nbc news, erbil, northern iraq. >> france's president is looking into the deadliest accident in 30 years. a lumber truck igniting an inferno and killing 43 people. at least four others were injured. french lawmakers observed a moment of silence for the victims later in the day. police believe the truck veered into the wrong lane and right into the path of the oncoming bus. >>> a bride gives her father a purity certificate to prove she's a virgin. why she did that and the backlash it's triggered on social media. >>> the cancer was already taking its toll. now a boy is fighting to survive after a chemotherapy narrator: puerto rico's economy is in a death spiral. to make matters worse, washington has plans to cut another $3 billion from the island's healthcare budget. puerto ricans pay the same medicare taxes, but receive less than half the funding of mainland states, leaving the system on life support. more cuts will push the economy to the edge of disaster and put every puerto rican's care in jeopardy. washington needs to act now to save healthcare for the three and a half mil

. >> our report from clarissa ward, and she joins us from erbil, iraq, tonight.ust had there in your piece told you he had one week of training, and now he's using a garmin device, as you showed, calling in air strikes? i mean, that is pretty stunning. >> reporter: it is pretty stunning, but you know, the u.s. has been desperately looking for good partners on the ground inside syria for years now, and the main criteria that the u.s. really has in that search is trying to find moderate fighting groups that don't have any ties to more extremist groups. and the reality is, in other parts of the country, even if you find moderate groups, it's a much more fluid situation. people move from group to group. they may have a brother who fights with al qaeda or al nusra in syria, even if they're with a moderate group. the kurds are far more insular. you don't have that fluidity and you don't have that extremism. so, in a sense, it's a marriage of convenience. >> now, the united states says today, as you know, that more boots could be coming on the ground. the u.s. defense s

inner, in erbil. that's seven time bombs.is is something we need to look seriously at, and it is far worse as you move into lebanon and jordan and turkey in terms of the burden, the stretch on their infrastructure. so our assistance needs to focus more on education, on employment, on the kind of trauma counseling that can help people recover and on helping the communities bear the burden more effectively as we ask them to continue hosting. thirdly, we can start now to help people return. in certain places in iraq there are opportunities to return, but we need to ensure we're helping communities deal with what could become cycles of conflict because of the mistrust that now exists between communities in the wake of isis. and so by working with communities to have the kind of facilitated dialogue that builds bridges, reduces tensions, and builds social cohesion, we bring people a better opportunity to return home without repeated cycles of conflict. then finally in addition to pushing hard on the kind of diplomatic solutions th

. >> richard engel joins me now from erbil.t happened because this is an extraordinary event. special forces were obviously operating in a very unusual role. >> reporter: well, this is the kind of operation that special forces do. they do air assaults like this all the time in places like afghanistan. they will arrive in helicopters, they will land sometimes a mile or two away from the target so that they're not heard, then they will approach on foot, storm the target and try and leave. it's what happened when they killed osama bin laden. it happens nightly in places around the world. but it was not part of the public policy or the way the war against isis was sold, especially here in iraq. when this administration sent military advisors back to iraq and there are now several thousand military advisors here, to train and assist the kurds, to train and assist the iraqi, advise and assist the iraqi army, the idea was that the americans would be behind their bases up in aircraft, manning drones, not going room to room fighting isi

she joins us now on the phone live from erbil, iraq. clarissa, these fighters are determined even if they are facing tough odds. >> reporter: well, jake, that's right. the kurdish ypg fighters that we have spent time with have certainly won decisive battles against isis on the battlefield largely because they have enjoyed coalition air support and are very much at the core of the u.s.' latest strategy to try to defeat isis inside syria. really the question here is whether they can replicate the successes that they have had in kurdish parts of syria in arab isis strong holds such as the city of roqa. the fighters we saw were exhausted from months of fighting, they were poorly equipped, lightly armed, many of them fighting with old ak-47s, some of them in their sneakers or sandals. and while the u.s. has air dropped 50 tons of ammunition to them and their allies on the ground in northern syria just a few weeks ago, the fighters told us it is going to take them much more than that to make a push and go for an offensive. >> what do rebel fi

she joins us live from erbil, iraq. clarissa, welcome to cnn and to "new day."eat to see you. el us what you've been seeing out there. >> reporter: thank you so much and good morning to you, alysin. a few weeks ago, the u.s. dropped 50 tons of ammunition to a new coalition of kurdish fighters who are fighting isis on the ground inside syria. we spent time on the front lines with the pain group in that coalition, the kurdish ypg, and they told us they are going to need a lot more than that. these men are at the core of america's latest strategy to defeat isis. manning positions along a vast and desolate front line, with isis entrenched in villages just through the haze. they're fighters with the ypg, a force of roughly 30,000 syrian kurds, which backed by coalition air power, have dealt divisive blows to militants across syria. commander bahoos is in front of this front line position in the city of haska, which the ypg took from isis after months of fierce clashes. >> they tried to attack us again ten days ago. we weren prepared, so they didnt reach their target.

back in northern iraq right now joining us live from erbil.alk to us about these kurdish fighters. you spent time with them. they're still facing constant isis attacks. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. there are skirmishes along the front lines that we visited almost every single day. just a few weeks ago, the u.s. did air drop 50 tons of ammunition to kurdish ypg fighters and their allies on the ground inside syria. but the fighters who we were with said they are going to need much more than that. >> reporter: these men are at the core of america's latest strategy to defeat isis. manning positions along a vast and desolate front line with isis entrenched in villages just through the haze. fighters with the ypg, a force of roughly 30,000 syrian kurds, which backed by coalition air power, has dealt decisive blows to islamic state militants across northern syria. commander is in charge of this front line position in the city, which the ypg took in august after months of fierce clashes. >> translator: they tried to attack us again ten days ago. w

she's joining us now live from erbil, iraq. good to see you.ew safe. what is the sense of being on the ground and the need for u.s. troops? >> reporter: well chris, good morning. we spent time in areas that have recently been liberated by isis. but you actually won't find people really celebrating there. and that is because the scale of the devastation that has been left behind by the fighting is enormous and people are still very uncertain about what the future holds. weeks ago these dusty plains were held by isis. this is what's left of its presence now. the charred remains of a training camp hidden in a pine forest. it is where isis trained an elite unit of suicide bombers that attacked kurdish positions with devastating effect. kurdish fighters, known as the ypg, took this entire area in august. but holding it along a front line more than 400 miles is a huge challenge. the commander told us he had lost thirty in a recent battle when isis came down from the mountain. >> translator: the enemy attacked us with a large number of fighters using

wheeler was shot inside the compound and died later after being transported to a military hospital in erbilr, a u.s. aircraft overhead destroyed the compound. u.s. are deployed to iraq to train, advise, and assist. they're allowed to return fire when they or their partner forces come under attack. >> when a fire fight ensued, this american ran to the sound of the guns and all the indications are it was his actions and that of one of his teammates that protects those who were involved in breaching the compound. >> reporter: this risky mission was launched by u.s. military officials after they spotted freshly dug mass graves inside the compound. u.s. officials say 70 prisoners were rescued, 20 iraqi security forces as well as iraqi civilians and interestingly isis fighters accused by their own group of spying. missing, however, were the kurdish captives they were originally sent in to rescue. defense secretary carter said he was proud of master sergeant carter. he said in his wounds he ran to the sounds of the guns. he made the decision to go into the fire fight. he lost his life for it. secr

and you also have the very fact that they are traveling from erbil to hawuja which is filled with formerthist. you're going to need aircraft. you have 70 prisoners so you need transport to get them out of there. all of these things require some type of equipment and kit that the americans have, that the peshmerga currently don't. you'll see american special operation forces going along with these kinds of missions. >> very interesting. lieutenant general mark hertling, appreciate your insight and your information. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >>> still to come a cnn exclusive. disturbing report on the care of our veterans at the v.a. are receiving. surprising results from this new investigation. >>> first, this week's culinary journey takes us to remote areas of peru. look at where this chef gets his inspiration. ♪ >> reporter: the andes. spanning seven countries, the world's longest mountain range was once the cradle of ancient civilizations. known as the masters of the clouds, the inka empire sculpture. after a flight to the southeast, the trip will take him 3,500 meters

government personnel in erbil and baghdad were under severe threat and isolated siege to the sinjar mountainwhere they intended to annihilate the a cd population. mosul had fallen to create have fallen and we witness atrocities unparalleled in our experience. a year later the coalition apply significant pressure on this group getting isil with more than 7500 airstrikes nearly 6000 of which the united states has conducted taking out as the pentagon announced last week just as a measure of the effect 70 senior and mid-level isil leaders from me, roughly to every other day. with 18 coalition coalition members have been trained more than 14,000 iraqi and peshmerga soldiers to date we denied isil freedom to operate in over 30% of the populated caramel -- territory and iraq held just last august and the iconic city of tikrit has been liberated in 75% of the population has returned. isil has been almost completely pushed back where iraqi air force aircraft flying u.s. supplied f-16s have provided close air support operations on the ground in four columns of iraqi troops are closing in on ramadi the

reporter: we know a little bit more about the operation and craig, i'm actually in kurdistan right now in erbilom kurdistan, from this part of northern iraq. i was launched at the request of kurdish forces, which are known as the peshmerga, the kurdish forces that control this part of iraq. they were hoping to rescue some of their own and they wanted to go and attack this prison complex in hawija and they wanted american support. they wanted american support to get there and they wanted frankly american fire power to help them in case the mission got more complicated and more difficult than they could handle by themselves. the americans agreed and the americans agreed because they want to help the kurds. they are very close allies. and because, i think we are going to hear ash carter talk about this a lot, because they had intelligence that indicated the hostages were going to be imminently executed. so there was a dire need. this was an urgent mission, according to the pentagon. helicopters were launched. five helicopters, i have been told. the kurdish forces and the delta forces, the american

erbil, northern iraq. that's it for me. thanks for watching. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> all right, here we go. breaking news on cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. i don't think i've ever seen these words before, but there's a first time for everything. a blimp is on the loose. we are told it's flying somewhere in the skies over pennsylvania. there are f-16 jets that have now been scrambled. boy, oh, boy, do i have some questions on this one. let's bring in our pentagon correspondent barbara starr, also with me our cnn aviatin correspondent maria sbarbara, we're looking at pictures of what said blimp would look like. can you tell me what the heck happened? >> well, we know at in point norad the north american aerospace command has confirmed that this blimp called jlens came loose from its tether rope at aberdeen proving grounds a military facility just north of washington, d.c., this morning. it was on a tether. this is a system they're testing out there. it's full of rada