forces to use the base at incirlik. the stated goal at the time was the creation of a safe zone along the turkish border free of i.s.i.l. fighters and controlled by moderate syrian insurgents. but the turks also hoped the safe zone would be a new home for the 1.7 million syrians who took refuge in southern turkey. that hasn't happened. now, turkey isn't sending any ground troops into syria. a sign that it's unwilling to be drawn into a devastating conflict to the southern border. >>> coming up, i'm talk to a special agent about the bombings could have on turkey's role in the entire region. >> they don't fear anything. >> they're consuming economically important species >> we're offering something on our menu that no-one else is offering. >> well, turkey is already dealing with roughly 2 million (* * *. >> so there's a possibility that i.s.i.s. will be involved in something like this. something they like to do, they like to create fault lines to create a vacuum and three can operate within that vacuum. we should not forg

incirlik air base, other planes have just rotated in last month. that's to make good on the promise to step up the pace of the air campaign which slowed in october for a lack of targets. while the pentagon says the u.s. forces will have no combat duties in syria for now it is not rulings out an expanded role in the future. a senior defense official explained the u.s. is not as comfortable with the syrians as it was with the kurdish peshmerga fighters, forces it has worked with for years. this is a start to gauge what is possible. randall. >> pentagon special correspondent jamie mcintire. >>> discussing possible deployment solutions fodiplomat, u.s. secretary of state john kerry and his counterparts from other countries could not agree. mohammed jamjoom has the story. >> they were two long and arduous days but finally common ground was formingd. at thforged. u.s. secretary of state john kerry was heappe happy to introe points of commonality. >> we agreed that syria's state institutions will remain intact. we agreed that the rights of all syrians, re

is also doubling the number of strike aircraft at turkey's incirlik air base, adding odozen f-15s to the dozen attack airplanes that just rotated in last month. that's to make good on the promise to step up the force of the air campaign that had lack of targets. >> special operations forces going into syria will have no combat duties it is not ruling out an expanded role in the future. a senior pentagon official explained that right now u.s. is not as comfortable with the syrian fighters as it was with the kurdish peshmerga fighters that were in that raid last week. the u.s. says this is just a start to gauge to see what's possible, john. >> jamie thank you. roger carsons is a former legislative liaison for secretary of defense. senior fellow at the senior policy research institute in washington tonight. roger why the flip-flop on boots on the ground policy by this administration? >> i think it's evident that the policy isn't quite working. i think the administration's pretty much admitted that. frankly in a small shift like this, even if you want to call it a large shift that's prob

the f-16s out of incirlik, turkey, two of them, could initially pick targets up on radar.hey were visually able to see them. it was the same area they were going to attack isis targets, i believe. the fact is, is that they, by guidance from higher headquarters, they exited the area so there would not be a collision or a problem. and, that is what ask happened with the small force of russian airplanes in there. they can frankly deter us from hitting targets when we want to hit them. deirdre: so in the pentagon briefing today u.s. military officials are calling for clearer air protocol procedures but russia needs to cooperate, right, for this to work? seems like that is very unlikely. do you agree? >> i agree because president putin today said in an international conference that the united states wasn't cooperating, and he used these words, the u.s. has mush for brains. and he cited the reasons in which they requested. so what we've got now is an information operations war, psychological warfare going on between the united states and russia, making it even more difficult to

while the headquarters are in irbil, you can also operate out of incirlik for travel into and out of.nd might there be incidents between america and russia? and iranian night fighters and american advisers with the free serbian forces? yes, that is combat. but talking about coordination, these things don't happen overnight, and in a vacuum, you will get the intelligence that you need to counter these types of things when you are working with the indigenous forces. >> all of this is on the e heels of the peace conference in vienna where we are hearing the sek tear of state talk about peace talks may be the only way out of it, and i will have to paraphrase here, and i don't have the quote in front of me, but some kind of hell in syria, and clarissa, you have been inside of that hell that is syria, and any notion on the ground that peace talks can have any effect given the situation they have been in for several years that only gets worse by the month? >> sadly, i don't think that you get any sense talking to people on all different sides of the spectrum inside of syria, and any real pro

there were air-to-air confrontation, a good chance our turkish allies would tell us we can't use incirlik air base to respond. we're really, amy old drill sergeant used to say -- >> we're now talking about deconflicting. having cordial, professional phone conversations. what the president should do. increase defend spending. arm ukrainians. arm sunnis. egypts, jordanians. >> hire is why. don't stand up to putin now. don't say you go to war with putin. he is looking at, pick up pockets in the other pocket. just done the middle east. he will take ukraine next. that is what i'm watching next. he is distracting our attention. the world attention is now focused on syria and middle east. trish: something ukraine is very concerned about. >> with interview you had. trish: president of ukraine had to say about vladmir putin, flat-out, called him a liar. listen to this. is he lying when he says that? >> yes. trish: does he do a lot of that? >> i think this is the part very powerful russian propaganda. against ukraine and europe and against united states. >> yeah. telling fox they are responding to

will use f-15 and a-10 jets at nearby incirlik air bass in turkey to strike bases around raqqah, the isis capital. the u.s. wants anti-isis 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 offers for us, because they are out there with the people. they talk to local leaders. >> reporter: you are all going to hear a lot about that city of raqqah. that is the center of isis power fighters, money, communications, in syria. it is going to be officials know a very tall order to get it back from isis hands. wolf? >> still a significant shift in u.s. policy under way right now, barbara, thanks very much. >>> the white house announcement came as secretary of state john kerry was meeting in vienna with dip ma diplomats with russian and iranian counterparts to broker some political solution to the 4-year-old syrian civil war. one of the thorniest issue, the future of the syrian pres

i had a question about the a-10s deploying to incirlik and for months and months the air force said it would not send aircraft into syria without doing three weeks of the air defenses within syria they just wouldn't survive. what has changed in the situation now that the milliontamillioitary feels safe enough to send the aircraft into that situation? >> well, you know, we're specifically -- i mean, a-10s have struck in syria already. so, this isn't a new phenomena. i don't know what remark you're referring to. i am not familiar with it. i know a-10s have flown in syria. a-10s have flown in iraq and obviously they'll continue to do so. these a-10s are replacing some f-16s that were rotating out. it's just that simple. this is a normal rotation of forces. this is about -- you know, there's nothing special or magical about the actual platform, right? i mean, it's -- it's -- you know, the ability to conduct strikes when we need them and where we need them. a-10 is just another platform in this case. >> replace f-16s and recently there was a new search and command outpost coming in. is that