remember, i.s. is such a brutal group that even al qaeda itself you know disowned its membership in the movement. what's most intriguing about this video, antonio, is that near the end, it convey is the fact that it considers itself a real state . it beings accuses united states are from interfering in the internal affairs of the islamic caliphate, it's trying to present itself primarily to the muslim world as a de facto state and a force to be reckoned with in the middle east for an i indefinite period of time. >> what do you think the u.s., may have even hoped to declare a formal end of the war on terror sometime this year. but here is part of what the president had to say about i.s. after the foley video was released. >> the united states of america will continue to do what we must do to protect our people. we will be vigilant and we will be relentless. >> and secretary of state kerry followed with a tweet saying i.s.i.l. must are destroyed, will be crushed. so it sounds like the war on terror if

they have been able to kill dozens of i.s. fighters, but the i.s.ighters have also pushed further, and many from the regime forces have died as well. the conflict in syria did give them more momentum. they have more fighters, more money, and a more solid cause where they can recruit more people. if you talk to the syrian opposition, they accuse the syrian regime of turning a blind eye if not supporting the existence and growth of the i.s. groups. the syrian government has said they have always said they are fighting terrorist groups like i.s., and now they are hoping the world will see their point of view, and at least scale back on his push to remove them, his the main rival right now on the ground is the i.s. group. >>> the deal that brought sergea sergeant bergdahl home is being said to be illegal. >>> hamas says it has executed at least 17 people it accuses of collaborating with israel. these deaths follow the killing of three senior hamas commanders by israel yesterday. jane ferguson has the latest from gaza, and a warning the images in this st

to see i.s. as the significant threat it seems to say it is now? >> well, i.s. is actually a metamorphosis of zarqawi's organization. , a secondary organization compared to al qaeda central. so i think in some ways that sort of myth was holding for quite some time within the administration. now we have seen that i.s -- go ahead. >> no, go ahead that i.s. is a very serious threat. you posed a question on twitter this week, what if due oa deal assad stopped slaughtering his own people? warning sau assad that if he exposed himself to attack from the united states, the white house has rejected out of hand cooperating with assad to defeat i.s. your reaction. >> you know i wouldn't be advocating partnering with assad to go after i.s. mainly because he is part of the problem. he's created a vacuum that has allowed i.s.i.s. to grow to the strength they are today by largely ignoring them and allowing them to take over some of the territory while he focused on the moderate rebel gripes so i think that it would be dilutional to think that we could delusional to think that

we can see i.s. fighters are engaged in one sort of battle or another with the syrian army, the syrian opposition, the iraqi army, and the american air force. this illustrates the americans and all the regional players in the region are not trying could to contain the expansion. >> the humanitarian situation in kurdistan is getting worse. nick charles has the latest. >> reporter: with every image and every passing day, the potential scale of a humanitarian disaster unfolding in northern iraq is becoming more apparent. at this camp in the kurdish area of neighboring syria, they do what they can to help. >> we expect refugees in the coming days. we're talking about 1200 to 15,000 people might be coming. so we try to mobilize the sources we can to the needs of those families and children. >> reporter: the u.s. aid effort continues to grow as well as the sixth wave of air drops to those still in despair on mount sinjar. the americans dispatched 130 more u.s. personnel to the city of erbil to assess in de

too impressed of what the i.s. is doing, the i.s. is too extreme for al qaeda, and they've been fighting for a while. unfortunately, it does seem to be attracting the vast majorities of foreign fighters who are traveling to the region to join a jihadist entity, that is probably because of a few factors, one, their use on the ground, two, and three, their premature declaration of

too impressed of what the i.s. is doing, the i.s. is too extreme for al qaeda, and they've been fighting for a while. unfortunately, it does seem to be attracting the vast majorities of foreign fighters who are traveling to the region to join a jihadist entity, that is probably because of a few factors, one, their use on the ground, two, and three, their premature declaration of establishing a caliphate. that kick starts a religious obligation to pledge allegiance to the caliph. >> some of the sunni tribe leaders in iraq may be considering working with the government now that maliki is going to be gone. there's also word that hezbollah, a group that's considered a terrorist group is calling the i.s. monsters. now you've got terrorists calling other terrorists monsters. i realize one is shia, the other is sunni, but could there be a growing movement against the atrocities these are making, mass executions, crucifixions, beheadings? >> hezbollah backed the dictator bashar al-assad, that's less of strategic relevance. to have a peace mu

we had reports today i.s. militants are 122 kilometers north of baghdad.rday we reported they were closing in. the ground they hold seems to be growing by the day. how do you assess the threat now and their strengths? >> it's difficult to assess their strengths. i think they've been checked. i think obviously they made dramatic advances by taking the iraqi army by surprise overrunning mosul and coming to baghdad. 120 miles from baghdad is 170 miles further from where they were from their high point. i think the longer term question is how do you push them back? how do you create a situation where isis is no longer holding territory and therefore able to threaten the states of the region? that's a longer term issue involving working with an iraqi government, working with the kurds and working with others to try and contain this will threat. it's not going to disappear overnight. >> it does seem we're seeing radical change to the political geography to that entire area. perhaps foreign governments aren't taking the threats seriously. >> i think they're takin

the i.s. militant group a short distance from erbil. for weeks, kurdish security forces have been trying to stop the militant advance. that's thought they're joined by other kurdish groups from turkey, iran and syria but they haven't been able to turn back the i.s. onslaught. erbil is a base for u.s. diplomats and security advisers, another reason for washington's intervention. >> president obama has been unequivocal that he will do what is necessary, what is in our national interests, to confront isil and its threat to the security of the region and to our own security in the long run. >> the white house says strikes will continue but ground troops won't be going back in. in the long term, washington wants iraqis to maintain their own security. >> the only durable way to stop isil is for iraq's leaders themselves to unite and form a government that represents all of the people as rapidly as possible within their constitutional framework. >> for now, though, there are other concerns, averting

and he said in the interview that the cooperation between i.s.up and turkey is sort of a strong cooperation. they were received on the red carpet in turkey and turkey treated all those injured from i. i.s., is this coming within the resolution of the political council 2170? another point, yesterday an american journalist has been released. we welcome this step. but a statement from the katri foreign ministry says the katri efforts have led to this journalist release so do these efforts of katar are they related to the activities of isra, before that a german minister said that his country has information about katar financing moosra. i want to see and to touch and to feel as a syrian citizen a real commitment to implement the items of this resolution by every country, particularly the neighboring countries. hence, i stress that syria is quite ready to cooperate and to coordinate on the regional and international levels when it comes to fighting terrorism, combatting terrorism and implementation of the resolution 2170 of the security council and w

running into a checkpoint of i.s.i.s, or i.s, running into a checkpoint of bandits being sold to i.s. >> how can you protect ur yoursf from kidnappers? >> you cannot. you have to trust a network you have established over the years in syria. >> i know james foley whose murder we saw on tape last week, who was one of your friends and obviously a colleague of yours, knowing what happened to james and people still being held by i.s, in aleppo do people talk about that, about kidnapping, are syrians subjected to the same kind of kidnapping threat as western journalists? good not to the kidnapping threat in itself but of course syrians are constantly under the threat of i.s. you can see crucifixions in rakka on a pretty regular basis, you have executions on a regular basis, so syrians of course are even more threatened by i.s. than international journalists. >> it may be too soon after the death of many james foley to ask you this question but have you thought about going back or not going back? >> yes. it's out of the question that i won't go back. i don't know when, but i will certainly g

germany says it is prepared to send arms to kurdish fighters battling i.s. militants in iraq. >> and germany unveils a plan to bring high-speed internet to everyone in the country. >> thanks for being with us. international leaders expressed outrage at the murder of an american journalist by the islamic state militants in iraq. they have released a video showing photojournalist james foley being beheaded. he had not been seen since going missing in syria in 2012. u.s. president barack obama says the entire world is appalled by the execution. international condemnation is pouring in, with germany calling the killing of the journalist a barbaric act. british prime minister david cameron cut short his vacation to hold an emergency meeting following reports that the man who carried out the execution is a british citizen. >> james foley was a veteran photojournalist who had covered many conflicts. he was first held captive for six weeks while uncovering the libyan civil war in 2011. just a year later, he disappeared in syria after his car was stopped by unknown m

there are reports that i.s. has taken mosul dam and other areas. explain how strategic this is. >> well, it's oil and water, the two things that control the person inside iraq and inside the middle east. now when they're controlling water it means that they will threaten the entire area, and if they want to negotiate they will be in a powerful position. secondly even the oils, even the is also controlling the oils to turkey. and it export oil to these regions, it will control them. it will have support and strong position when they negotiate. it also means that they will say if there is no plan, no international accurate plan because they have all the power on the other end. >> explain to us, then, because it seems like the i.s. has been gaining a lot of ground in the last few months. explain what is behind their success? >> well, it's a political issue. it's not a military issue for eight years maliki, the iraqi momen prime minister. he did manage to convince the sunnies who are controlling all of this area that he is the prime minister of iraq. h

can use in trying to confront i.s. fighters. but there's a larger strategic issue at work here richelle and the administration is trying very hard to get it right. >> okay so the u.k. is raising their terror alert. they are also concerned about british citizens fighting for i.s. returning to their home country. is there a similar concern here in the u.s? >> reporter: there are similar concerns but the numbers that we're talking about richelle are much smaller than those that the u.k. is facing. and there are also very different leg questions on how the u.s. could deal the people that it thinks that could act as some sort of security threat. american officials don't want to say exactly how many people have gone from the u.s. to syria, for example, to fight alongside i.s. and jubat al nusra and other groups opposed to the government of bashar al-assad. the u.k. by contrast is very worried about hundreds if not thousands of people who go back and forth between the u.k. and countries across the middle east and south asia and they're

by the same token i.s.t just a military challenge but also a political challenge and what the administration has been searching for for the last three years and has yet to really, you know, figure out, because of opposition by a number of actors including russia, is how to career ain't a diplomatic initiative that can solve the overall challenge in syria of which i.s. is a part. >> can you imagine in congress wasn't willing to back air strike in syria over the use of chemical weapons over the a sued regime, can you imagine congress being willing to have the stomach for air strikes in syria, notwithstanding the gruesome murder of james foley? >> well, i think the murder of james foley crystallizes what is at risk here. and it does bring the conflict closer. >> right. >> in terms of our psychology, by the same token you are exactly right. a year ago the administration faced an uphill battle to convince congress in a step kickal and war weary public, to take discreet military action in syria, i don't think tha

i.s. militants is growing. in the past hour, france announced it too will send a shipment of arms to kurds in northern iraq within hours. with more, here is the bbc's nick charles. >> reporter: with every image and every passing day, the potential scale of the humanitarian disaster unfolding in northern iraq is becoming more apparent. at this camp in the kurdish area of neighboring syria they're doing what they can to help. >> we expect to have further flow of refugees in the coming days. we are talking about 1200 to 15,000 people might be crossing. so trying to mobilize the sources as best we can to respond. >> reporter: the u.s. aid effort continues to grow as well as air drops the americans dispatched 130 more u.s. personnel to the city of erbil to assess in depth what more needs to be done. but -- >> as the president made very clear, we're not going back into iraq in any of the same combat mission dimensions that we once were in, in iraq. very specifically this is not a combat boots on

the danger may even come from the syrian side from the i.s. has its own forces. and i.s. pushed north taking two more towns. their growing momentum has set off alarm bells in bagdad and the kurdish region. the president of the kurdistan aon the mouse region is urging the international community to help fight what he calls terrorism. >> translator: our goal is clear and it matches literally the words of the president, quoting, we will not stop and bewill liberate all of the places taken over by i.s. >> reporter: as more fighting is expected in the area, civilians continue to flee, some 40,000 civilians crossed to the kurdish areas during the last few days. on sunday al jazeera camera accompanied more people fleeing. >> translator: we came here because we were afraid. our town was destroyed. we left all of our household items. all of our possessions. everything. many people didn't have time to pack their belongings. >> reporter: driven away from their villas by fear, these civilians could face difficult conditions. but what they need most is for calm to return so they can g

just this week, i.s. captured an important air base in northeastern syria beating back government forces despite syrian air power. military analysts say i.s. a for midible fighting force would be difficult to defeat without a strong ground campaign. the islamic state does not want for fighting power among its volunteers or about 1200 foreigners around the globe including europe and the u.s. not just the united states government but many western governments are concerned about these foreign fighters leaving their shores, going over there, getting radicalized, trained and coming back. >> u.s. officials believe there are dozens of american citizens fighting for the group in syria and iraq. one of them, this man, a 33-year-old min societyan yudded as douglas macarthur mccain was killed in fwhalths syria last week end. his relatives confirm mccain, a convert to the islam had died. >> they are part of thewell disciplined, well armed military machine whose horrific brutality has made them a feared force. >> the

i.s.ers are continuing to take ground there and control the city and raka and on monday they said they have taken over the entire providence. and syria said it will work with the international community to fight the so-called terrorist and says damascus must be asked permission first. let's go live to ruler our correspondent who is following developments from neighboring lebanon and the capitol beirut and ruler so can we assume given the instance there there is some kind of communication going on between the americans and syrians in order to allow for these surveillance flights? >> officially there is no direct communication happening. unofficially we have been seeing these statements from the syrians basically saying they are welcoming any effort to strike at the islamic state group, whether it's inside syria or iraq but if in syria they have a clear condition it has to be coordinated with damascus otherwise it will be perceived as an aggression. we do know in the past few months there ha

i.s. have advanced quickly because they had support at different levels from other sunni muslim groups including people that supported president hussein. they were against him. but they have been disaffected in iraq. if there's a new government, new prime minister, if they try to disconnect the bulk of the sunni population from not just support but actively turn them against i.s., then this strategy there and americans may provide air power in terms of making that happen on the military level. essentially it's got to come from politics. there's no solution to this in simple military terms. >> that was jeremy boeing. we're going to stay in the region and look at gaza. that's the live shot behind me. hamas says three senior commanders have been killed in a israeli air strike in the southern gaza strip. four other palestinians have been killed in strikes on the northern town in gaza city. the israeli defense force says an israeli civilian has been severely injured in morter fire. let's talk t

is already at war with i.s. since august 8, the military bombed vehicles, check points and con voice nearly 90 times, only two of them not killing the fighters in their sights. the iraqi government asked washington to intervene because its troops couldn't prevent the take over of northern iraq. the question of war is one for president barack obama, not the military, which takes its orders from him. he added this, the battle to stop i.s. will not stop soon and will go beyond iraq. >> can they be stopped without addressing them in iraq? no. airstrikes, i'm not predicting those will occur in jair, not by the united states or america, but requires the application of all the tools of national powers. >> pentagon officials repeated what the president and state department have said about the airstrikes, they are only being used for humanitarian and national security reasons. officials there also know that they're going to have to prove their not engaging in mission creep, using the airstrikes as a pretext or an all out

[gunfire] some 12000 people live in this town under attack by the i.s.or about two months now. the u.n. says the situation in amerilee is desperate and running low on food and medical supplies and they are among the many minority groups who have been forced in large numbers from their homes in the north. some found their way to this camp on the outskirts of irbil. >> i have six children and life is difficult for us and would like to be back home, that is what we want. >> reporter: the fate of iraq's minorities just like the country is uncertain and people no longer feel safe unless they are among their own communities. this is a transit center where internally displaced families are waiting to be repatriated and not going home and waiting to be flown to baghdad and other shia areas where they say they will feel safe but life in the capitol is violent, a series of car bombs over the last few days killed dozens in the area and attacks keep happening despite tight security in and around the ci city. >> translator: i saw fire erupt near our fire with a big p

and major win for i.s. as the fights are gripped on major areas in syria stretching to iraq. but the syrian government is hoping soon that it will have new support to fight the islamic state group. officials in damascus believe the growing threat of the armed group will shift the priorities of the west led from the united states to fighting assad to fighting his enemies, the islamic state group as now seen by some the worst of two evils. >> in syria we welcome in resolution. we know that it is late. but we commit ourselves to this resolution, and we hope and we welcome every country who is committed to this resolution. >> the message is clear. without support from sirral the fight will be lost. the prime minister warns any military strike without coordination in damascus would be seen as an aggression. >> we are firm that it's quite impossible to deter the approach where all countries and all international and regional organizations are cooperationing in preventing these terrorist threats and puts an end to the movement of terrorism. >> officially no one has asked the syrian

need to target the i.s. in syria to contain it? because by one estimate there are 50,000 i.s.hters in syria. >> i don't think the numbers are that high. the latest figures i saw are between 10 and 20,000, but that's over a very large area stretching from aleppo, to mosul. and the first priority needs to be to defeat them in iraq. that's where the strategic terrain is. that's where the oil fields are located, and we have partners. certainly the kurds in the north and it looks like a better government in bagdad. >> and that 50,000 number comes from the syrian observatory of human rights. but do you think the only way to stop i.s. right now is a military one by killing its members? is there a diplomatic solution that should also be a solution here? >> again, president obama laid this all out on june 19th. it's diplomatic with the region, it's political, working with the iraqi government, with the shoeny arab tribes, working with the kurds to ensure a unified inclusives group, and american air strikes and intelligence. >>> the human cost in the middle east continues to grow. the d

inside iraq, yee i.e. bee headings, started in saudi arabia in 1932 on wards, thirdly, saudi arabia has not been vocal enough in accepting shia sufis, intolerance towards, encourages others to say we can outdo, after all if you go to mecca and medina, a thousand years of muslim history no longer exists, that's been you know bulldozed by the house of saroud by the encouragement of the wahadi establishment. unless in house inside its own country in its own backyard it's make too much of a demand for many of its own students and many of its own students, who pick up arms for -- another form of literalist islam, out islam, if you like, the saudi form of islam. >> you say the form of islam that is practiced in much of saudi arabia is something the prophet moament model mohamed would not recognize. you say saudi arabia is not following islam the way it was set out. are they worried if they loose be the grip on the form of islam that they will lose their grip at hoax, especially as they see arabs around the world

but he added this, the battle to stop i.s.t end soon and will go beyond iraq. >> to your question, can they be defeated without addressing that part of their organization which resides in syria? the answer is no. that will have to be addressed on both sides of what is essentially at this point a nonexistent border. it requires a variety of instruments one only small part of which is air strikes. it requires the application of all of the tools of national power. >> reporter: pentagon firms repeated what was said about the air strikes in iraq. but officials know they are going to have to prove they are not engaging in mission creep, using the air strikes as a pretext for on all out war. >> we have a middle east politics and security specialist with us. the i.s. group needs to be stopped. who is going to do it? >> well, i think they are going to first look to actors in the region. because it's the region in the countries around syria and iraq that are most deeply affected. and if you include the gulf count industries, jordan and

but now things have changed, and now the kurds had to confront the i.s. the i.s. as well in sierra in the direct conflict with the kurds as well. the question is can the kurds do it by themselves? their fate to do that will spark the future awaiting the area. >> the fact that baghdad has now ordered air support to help the kurdish fighters regain ground, is that a sign that the two sides are now willing to work together? >> they have decide to take hold of those areas. now the iraqi government lending support to the kurdish initiative. this is the minimum they can do. as we know very well airstrike by itself will not change the fact online. are they in situation to change the situation in northern iraq? my guess, m my understanding without a new approach to the whole issue we will not be able to change anything. the new approach would be by having a change of government in baghdad, a government inclusive where sunni and kurds as well as other shiites consider as their representative and willing to fight for it. >> the international players say it has to be a gover

i.s. fighters continue to take ground there.nday they said they had taken over the entire province. while syria has said it will work with the international community to fight the islamic state group, it says damascus must be asked permission first. let's talk to the former deputy director of operations for coalition forces in iraq during depreciation iraqi freedom. he is joining us live from washington, d.c. so to what extent is the u.s. planning to work with the syrian government and bashar al-assad? >> i'm not sure there's any linkage between what we are seeing in the air and any work between the united states and syria. the united states has a clear and present danger from isil, and i don't think it will sneak nor negotiate permission from the assad regime? >> so you think the united states will go at it themselves, even though it has been said that they must ask permission first? >> even though we're working against isil directly, there would be collateral benefit to the syrian regime to us taking out some of those isil tar

saudi arabia says it is too, but building a coalition against i.s. means getting tangled in difficult, often bloody, regional politics. it won't be easy. now iraq's own sectarian conflict's emerging with the syrian war, the challenge facing anyone who wants peace becomes twice as big. syria's war has been impossible to stop. no one yet has a proper strategy to end the war in iraq either. >> for more on i violence in iraq and the fight against the islamic state, i spoke a brief time ago with the former u.s. state department spokesman. thank you very much for coming in. there is now a lot of open talk about going into syria. after all these years, how likely is military action by the u.s.? >> i think the statements by chairman of joint chiefs yesterday and reiterated by the white house today gives you a strong hint that the united states recognizes that if you're trying to neutralize the threat posed by the islamic state, you can't do it on one side of the border without effective action on the other side of the border. and perhaps they're gaining conf

s hit at the i.s.up to get recognition of the government in damascus. >> if these spy planes do go ahead, what do you think will follow that considering the gains that the i.s. fighters are making? >> well, the syrian air force had been targeting the islamic state group position, and that had not deterred the group, nor had it stopped their expansion to take more control in syria. so this not going to have dramatic quick impact. it will probably weaken the group and limit partially it's ability to move heavy weapons, but many people doubt if the strikes alone will amount to a serious halt to the group's expansion and strength. >> because the u.s. has said all along that in order for anything to be successful, the region itself has to step in, the neighboring countries. what are the chances of that happening at the same time? >> yes, that is true. they understand that striking from the air is not enough, and they need people to act on the ground militarily and also to attack their base, and especially s

but what about the doctors, the savagery of i.s. group too. >> access is so limited in this country because of the insecurity most particularly. as you say we've had to be creative with delivery of our program for that reason and we've had to juggle at all times the beneficiaries that we serve, not just our ex-patriot staff but all of the doctors on staff. what i've seen here this whole year is an absolute disregard for humanitarian principles which is very difficult for us. i've worked in many contexts around the world where at least ambulances and doctors were respected but not in syria. >> lebanon, iraq, jordan, working, helping people, let's take a look at one of your doctors, what he had to say a trauma surgeon in jordan. >> we have three new cases coming. three of them kids . >> some of these doctors are working around the clock. this doctor, dr. alwash was a refugee himself. how many people are there like him in your group who come to it because of their personal experiences? >> we have so many. we have so many people working

should engage if at all against i.s. forces inside syria and iraq.ngoing air strikes have been carried out since earlier this month, august 8th, but there is a very vibrant debate in this country about whether the u.s. should be taking military action inside syria in order to try to stem the threat from i.s. let's listen to what the spokesman at the pentagon had to say about the pentagon's planning. >> the president yesterday was speaking specifically about options for potential military action in syria. that's what the president was referring to yesterday, and that's -- those are the plans and the options that -- that he is looking for from us and that we're working on, specifically with respect to syria, and it's important to remember, missy, i mean, we have been operating inside iraq from a humanitarian perspective and conducting air strikes, nothing has changed about those missions. we're up to almost 110 air strikes total since they began, so the discussion of operations in iraq continues because the operations in iraq continue. >> despite all o

let's talk about i.s. as we call them now and how much control they have in both of these countri countries. if i can start with you charles, off overlook what's happening in syria because we're focussing on iraq. there has been talk of militants close to taking aleppo. is that still the situation or are they driven back? >> at the moment that's still ongoing with the advance north of the city. so far their focus is more in the northern country side rather than the i city. the country side is more strategically valuable for them and the opposition who currently control it and who look at this point likely to lose control of larger amounts of this country side in coming days and weeks. >> you have both opposition and president assad forces fighting at the moment? >> absolutely. that's one of the new things we've seen in the last week or two, the government and the syrian air force particularly, has gun launching more intensified operations against the islamic state. particularly in the northern aleppo count

pushed back to i.s. and the peshmergas -- is the regional dam. the question is whether the i.s. has been contained. the answer is obviously not yet. [indiscernible] northern and eastern syria. [indiscernible] but not in syria -- from my perspective, the problems in iraq are more than brutality and atrocities of i.s. and link to what the u.s. did not do in syria. for example, one person is accepting of this fact. journal the atlantic that. this is what turkeys has been saying for the last few years actually. -- what turkey has been saying. assad has left them alone. the last point that i would like to rise here before we go to is about the humanitarian disaster in iraq. there was the murder of the american journalist james foley, and other unacceptable disasters , affecting a lot of people in america and all over the world. we have to do everything to stop , butbarbaric savageness you have to realize also that local people are in danger. there is a great threat of i.s,cre by was ao days ago, there call to prevent a possible , and it has been under siege. the ethnicities are diffe