plane to come down in isil territory. they thought the group does possess anti-aircraft weapons which are portable and easy to hide. so targeting them in airstrike is a difficult task. one expert said that there are former iraqi officers in isil capable of using this technology. >> they operate this iraqi officers, they're experienced, and they handle such weapon nicely, and they need some skill to shoot down an airplane. but as jordan government source has said, it has held the isil responsible for the safety and life of the pilot. >> reporter: this latest incident will have major implications for the u.s.-led air campaign. they've carried out hundreds of airstrikes since their operation started in september. they'll need to quickly understand the capabilities of isil as it becomes a bigger threat in the skies above iraq and syria. the pilot's father has made a direct appeal to isil for mercy. his relatives must wait for news on the fate of this young pilot. al jazeera. >> kurdish forces in northern iraq are fighting to

home land from isil, however as has been noted, isil has encouraged it's supporters to carry out attacks and such attacks could be subjected without specific direction from isil with little or no warning. in addition terrorist group skrs shown interest in attacks on u.s.-bound airplanes. terrorists have tried to conceal impro viszed exploeive devices and commercial electronics in years of the body they don't think will be thoroughly searched and in shoes, cosmetics or liquids in order to try to diffuse airplane screening. first aviation security. in early july, secretary johnson directed the transportation security administration to enhance screening at a number of oversees airports with direct flights to the united states. tsa increased the number of additional airports to use enhanced screening methods. dhs will work with air carriers in foreign airports to adjust screening measures to take into account changing to the threat. second preclearance. one of secretary johnson's initiate tys is to -- preclearance means that a plane takes off, all passengers and their baggage are inspected b

isil's top military leader. since the air campaign "g" began in august the u.s. has spent more than $1 billion, and the u.s. and it's coalition partners have conducted more than 1371 airstrikes in both countries. >> the blowtorch of the islamic state and the religious cleansing . the amnesty international report talks of cruelty on the part of islamic state fighters that stand in contrast . what explains the current suffering of the yazidis, and what does the future hold for them? we'll start the program in erbil, iraq. a member of iraq's yazidi community, welcome to the program. what's the situation that we find ourselves in as 2014 ends? are there any traditional yazidi areas that have been untouched in this war? >> reporter: thank you very much much. yazidis, no, and it's a tough situation. after four and a half months of control of sinjar, and kidnapping 5,300 women and girls, 479 have escaped girls, women and children. still there are more than 3,000 women being kidnapped and disappear and being controlled

isil poured down the western valley. in baghdad during this period, just six months ago this week, there was a growing panic within the population, the government, security services, and the diplomatic community. at the embassy we prepared for the worst-case scenario and e c evacuated 1,500 people moving them to imam, kuwait, or irbil. we also prepared to help the iraqis fight back. within 72 hours of mosul's collapse, the president ordered four initiatives to hold the line and set the conditions for a possible counteroffensive. first, we surged intelligence over the skies of iraq. we went from flying one platform per month to 60 per day, gaining a more granular picture of the isil network essential to the future of any military campaign. second, we established joint operations centers in baghdad and irbil, restoring critical relationships with iraqi and kurdish commander, gaining new insight into their capabilities and needs. third, we deployed special forces teams to assess iraqi and kurdish security formations with a

if you're to defeat isil. believe it's the indigenous armed forces that should be conducting those and that's entirely the half of this. a very important part of what we do there is not making things worse by our actions. we have to be very, very clear of that. and we have to in many ways, air on the side of caution, so if you ask me whether or not i can contemplate it, i cannot. >> i am confident if we get the right confidence in baghdad -- largely conducted by the indigenous forces, enabled by technical training, we can defeat isil in iraq. no doubt about that at all. the key of course is to strip away from the isil leadership and the fanatics and foreign fighters. the indigenous support and i think that's doable a, but that is a political aspect with the right circumstances politically, i have politically, i have no doubt what we can do will fulfill the capacity and embrace the militia and the franchise of disaffected sunni tribes and build on that. we could be back, but as i say, it does need the condition

homeland from isil. however, isil has encouraged supporters to carry out attacks, and such attacks could be conducted without specific direction from isil with little or no warning. in addition, terrorist groups have shown interest in attacks on u.s.-bound airplanes terry terrorists have tried to conceal improvised the close of devices in commercial electronics in areas of the body they think will not be thoroughly searched, and in shoes, cosmetics, or liquids, in order to defeat airport security screening. and let me turn to seven specific security measures put in place in response to the terrorist threat from syria and iraq. first, aviation security. johnson july, secretary directed a transportation security administration to enhance screening at a number of overseas airports with direct flights to the united states. ultimately, tsa increase the number of additional airports overseas to use in cramped green methods. dhs will work with air carriers and for airports to adjust screening measures to take a

they're trying to coordinate the fight against isil. the fighting has been fierce. [ gunfire ] this isil gunman was killed when a sniper bullet hit the rocket propelled grenade he was about to launch. >> we destroyed isil's hide outside. this i--hideouts. you can see that we're clearing all the orchard and farms. they're trapped now. >> the village is deserted. this ruler area has become a battlefield. the men fighting with special forces are with the tribes, hugely important for the battle in anbar. here a fight within a fight. isil against the sunni tribes that have turned against them. when the special forces team finishes the deployment, they will go back to the air base in western anbar. there are american military advisers back on the base, but the fighting is here. isil has been driven back by security forces working with shia militias. tribal leaders in anbar are calling for arms and ammunition and some are even calling for help from american troops on the ground. that will likely not happen, but it shows how desperate the fight

if isil is coming in, the fighters are coming in to fight assad we are trying to denigrate isil so as- do we encourage or insight more fighters to come in? that's the question. are our actions or our inactions, either actions to go after isil insighting more fighters to come in or inaction to go after assad is that insighting more fighters to come in? >> i'm not sure i can give you a definitive answer here. it's hard for me to put myself in the head of a foreign fighter. >> what about in terms of the advertising that they do to bring the fighters in? do they use our actions or inaction snz. >> they are trying to use our actions as an incentive or motivation for people to come and fight. i can't point specific evidence for this stage and setting that says whether this is happening. >> are most of the fighters coming in through turkey? >> yes. turkey is the primary target. >> seems another counter veiling issue here is turkey is being -- is under deluge from syrians fleeing assad. so their resources are hurting badly. seems to me that they want somebody to be fighting assad. so do you t

isil. i would like to reflect briefly in how far we have come in the six months since the city of mosul in iraq fell. i was in northern iraq on june 10, six months ago today when mosul collapsed. during the next 72 hours, other cities fell, isil's -- to the west, a lesser noted but equally devastating offensive took place from across the syrian border with isil capturing the strategic border city, isis then poured down the euphrates valley. in baghdad during this period, just six months ago this week, there was a growing panic within the population, the government, security services and the diplomatic community. at the embassy we prepared for the worst-case scenario and evacuated 1,500 people moving them to amman, kuwait -- the president ordered four initiatives to hold the line and set the condition force a possible counter offensive. first we served intelligence over the skies of iraq, we went from flying o iningflying -- se established joint operations centers in baghdad and irbill resto

homeland from isil. however, isil has encouraged supporters to carry out attacks, and such attacks could be conducted without specific direction from isil, with little or no warning. in addition, terrorist groups have shown interest in attacks on u.s.-bound airplanes. terrorists have tried to conceal improvised explosive devices in commercial electronics in areas of the body they think will not be thoroughly searched, and in shoes, cosmetics, or liquids, in order to defeat airport security screening. let me turn to seven specific security measures put in place in response to the terrorist threat from syria and iraq. first, aviation security. in early july, secretary johnson directed a transportation security administration to enhance screening at a number of overseas airports with direct flights to the united states. subsequently, tsa increased the number of additional airports overseas to use enhanced screening methods. dhs will work with air carriers and foreign airports to adjust screening measures to

isil againstel sunni tribes that have turned against them. the men will go back to the air base in western anbar. there are american military advisers back on the base, but the fighting is here. around baghdad isil has been driven back by iraqi security forces. by shia militias. that won't work in anbar where the area is tribal and deeply suspicious of the iraqi government. some are calling for help from the american troops on the ground. that likely won't happen, but it's an indication of how desperate the fight is in iraq's western province. al jazeera, baghdad. >> the united kingdom will send more troops to iraq to help in the fight against isil fighters. britain's defense secretary said they'll be deployed next month to train iraqi forces. britain has also taken part in u.s.-led airstrikes against isil targets. >> indian police have arrested a 24-year-old man for running a pro isil twitter account that has attracted millions of views every month. he's accused of inciting war against india's allies after posting 100,000 tweets will isil ac

the fight against isil.re strainedded on the sinjar mountain range, fighting has left them cut off and facing increasingly harsh conditions, aid workers are making a desperate attempt to get them to safety. let's go to our correspondent joining under the circumstances live from the sinjar mountains. we understand the situation is tense there, sue, what's the latest. >>> yes, i have just been talking to the man in charge of the sinjar operation here, it's a joint operation with the per peshmerga and the p.k. k. and the yazidi volunteer force, essaying this morning they are getting extremely worried. they are held at the moment by a ravine that isil fighters are trying to push up and they are saying this morning that they have been seeing hummers and bulldozers pushing up more and more fighters in ever greater numbers, they have four positions overlook that go ravine but they are loo they arn heavily weaponry to hold back the isil forces, the general is asking for air strikes, the only that can hold them back

isil threaten the northern approaches to baghdad.o the west, there was an offensive vastating isis taking the city of -- baghdad during this period, just six months ago, there was among the panic population, government, and diplomatic community. at the embassy, we evacuate 1500 people. we also prepared for the iraqis to fight back. within 72 hours, we prepared for possible counteroffensive. find one platform per day, hs to 60 gaining more intelligence. we established joint centers, gaining new insights into the needs. third, we deployed special forces teams. finally, and perhaps most supported the e iraqis. throughout the summer months, we work these four tracks simultaneously. by iraqi relationships commanders, while supporting iraqi political leaders as they stood up a new government. present t 8, when the to st ordered forces we were e action, prepared. later, a new government represented -- policy is s governing decentralization. last week's historic oil accord was an outgrowth of this policy. new government is committed to stren

-lead coalition air strikes are not making any difference between isil.ashar al-assad made his comments in an interview to a french magazine. he said, quote, you can't end terrorism with aerial strikes. he went on to describe his position in syria as a captain trying to save his ship. >>> now, israel will hold early elections on march 17th next year. they voteded to dissolve itself after benjamin netenyahu sacked two key ministers and announced plans for a snap election two years ahead of schedule. >> reporter: by going to early elections, prime minister netenyahu hopes to end the crisis that he says he has been suffering from within his government with a lot of ministers giving him ultimatums and threats. what he is trying to achieve by holding early elections is a coalition government that is more in agreement with him and his policies, and does not present a lot of challenges to him, more often than he wants to. what we are expecting to see in the coming months after the election when a coalition government is formed is a move to a shift to the right-w

isil is still in control of 70% of anbar province. most of ramadi city is held by iraqi forces backed by tribal gunmen. iraqi and kurdish forces are also making gains around sinjar mountains. they've managed to open a second corridor there. tikrit is still under isil while the city of tirkuk is held by the peshmerga fighters. >> the time to secure the campaigns and success they've made. the latest victory is the retaking of a town at the foot of the sinjar mountains. it's where at least 1,000 families from the yazidi community are taking refuge. they have been under siege for more than two months. the retaking of the town by the kurdish fighters means they can now return to their homes. but isil fighters dispute the peshmerga claim. they insist that they're still in sinjar. kurdish forces also claim nearly 700 square kilometers as isil-held territory along the route to sinjar mountains. >> to move all the way to sinjar, to liberate and to rescue those yazidi people who are trapped on mount sinjar. >> kurdish forces say they've gained

they come to our front line. >>> overrun by isil. >> what will happen is isil will be able to strengthen its position until syria and iraq, i.e. in the territories it has captured and this will also mean a isil forces which declared a caliphate in the area that it has occupied it will be a nato member country and nato to the nato territory, which is turkey. so while the world is trying to fight against isil and the territories it has occupied, the fact that isil, the peshmerga failed to defeat the isil forces, though they are getting air support from the coalition will really be a dangerous situation. it will further strengths en the isil presence in both countries. >> right. >> in the region. >> you just mentioned tke >> you just mentioned turkey there, and seeing as this threat is on turkey's doorstep, turkey has said that they are willing to train or provide more training to the peshmerga and to the curtkurdish fighters but th have been hosetants about sending troops in to the area to try to ensure isil doesn't expand to their borders. why is there that sition? >> i think it is a righ

they say he has no direct links with isil. he's charged with a number of crimes including inciting war against india's allies. >> he never hurt anyone. >> analysts say that his arrest is not evidence of a wider pro isil movement in india. >> his impact may have very significant dangers in the places where he got his largest following. which is basically in the u.k. and then in europe. now in these places he may actually end up as a tool of recruitment. >> the police say that he acted alone but his posts may have been used by isil recruits, who followed him on twitter. based on what police say he is an isil pro propagandist who found information and put it online. but he may be behind bars for years. >> al jazeera continues to demand the release of its three journalists who now have been detained in egypt for 350 days. mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste were jailed over false allegations that they had helped the outlawed muslim brotherhood. they're appealing against their convictions and jail sentences. [music] >>

iraq take more ground from isil, but say they can only do so much alone. also to come: >> the cia would love it if you two could take him out. >> north korea said it wasn't behind a cyberattack that drove sony to scrap it's satirical movie about kim jong-un. >> we're just days away christmas, and there is one industry that is set to do incredibly well. can you guess what it is? find out shortly. >> we start in pakistan where the government has stepped up its military campaign against the taliban. intelligence sources are saying the mastermind of the attack on the school may have been killed in an airstrike. he took responsibility for the attacks in a video released online. he said that more attacks would target military families. it's thought he may be one of 21 suspected taliban fighters who were killed in airstrikes in the area of tirah. just four days since the taliban killed 148 people, most of them were children in a school attack in peshawar. >> reporter: going in pakistan after a deadly attack on school children. thousands of people, supporters of t

it was destroyed by isil. in syria most cultural sites are now considered to be in danger like the city of aleppo, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities of the world. this satellite image taken in 2011 shows the city's grand mosque, a major par t mosque, a major part of the city, as you can see. well here is an image captured this year showing what is left of it. while the sites withstood the test of time, they were not able to with stand the raff rages of civil war. joining us director of antiquities. thank you for joining us. is it mainly that it's the violence or are some of the sites targeted, or is it perhaps the economic gain that can be made from selling some of the artifacts, what is the main cause? >> thank you very much. we're here in paris for the meeting of unisco. the biggest responsibility is how we can help the culture areas in syria and iraq. what has happened in syria is catastrophic. also the fighting in aleppo city, how can we as syrian people together to protect our country, and t

he's aiming at where isil are hold up in palm groves. they are part of a group trained by american special forces. sniper mohammed jabar i says he's fighting for his family and his country. he has his daughter's name tattooed on his hand. >> little by little we're advancing. >> reporter: this is a strategic spot. fallujah and the south of ramadi are trying to coordinate the fight against isil. the fighting has been fierce. this isil gunman was killed when a sniper bullet hit the grenade he was about to launch. >> we destroyed their hide out. this is all in cooperation of the eighth and tenth iraqi army. we're clearing all the or that iorchards and farms. they're trapped now. >> reporter: this rural area has become a battlefield. here there is a fight within a fight, isil against the sunni tribes that have turned against them. when this special forces team finishes the deployment men will go back to the air base in western anbar. there are american military advisers back on the base. fight something here. around baghdad isil has been driv

he's aiming at a nearby house where the isil are holed up. they're trained by american special forces who are clearing the way for the iraqi army. sniper mohammed jabar is even closer to the gunmen. he's fighting for his country and his family, his daughter sarah, her name tattooed on his hand. >> we have air support and with the help of god we have the upper hand. little by little we are advancing. >> this is a strategic spot on the intersection of the road to salah hadine province. the fighting has been fierce. [ gunfire ] this isil gunman was killed when a sniper bullet took a rocket propelled grenade he was about to launch. >> we destroyed their hideouts. this is all in cooperation with the eighth and tenth division of the iraqi army. as you can see we're clearing all the orchards and farms. they're trapped now. >> the village is deserted. this rural area has become a facilit battlefield. the men fighting are from the tribes, hugely important for the battle in anbar. here there is a fight within a fight. isil against the sunni tribes who

so when we go after isil, airstrikes, let's say, in iraq, we try to denigrate isil, we are in a sense helping assad, is that correct? >> i don't think we're helping assad. i think assad's problems go well beyond whatever we do with isil. and certainly if he's taking some consolation in the fact that we are attacking isil, i think he's making a big mistake. >> well, i'm just trying to figure this out. if isil is coming in -- the fighters are coming in to fight assad, we're trying to denigrate isil, so as we -- do we encourage or encite more fighters to come in? i guess that's the question, is are our actions or our inactions, either our actions to go after isil, inciting more fighters to come in, or our inaction to go after assad, is that inciting more fighters to come in? >> i'm not sure i can give you a definitive answer here. because i can't point to specific evidence. it's hard for me to put myself in the head of a foreign fighter who sees airstrikes being carried out. >> but what about in terms of the advertising that they do to bring the fighters in? do they use our actions or in

this isn't america versus isil. this is the people of that region versus isil. it's the world versus isil." i thoroughly agree with that. if there are folks that a think we ought to put our troops on the ground in another ground war, so be it. speak out now. offer an amendment. that's your right. i respect it. i strongly disagree with it. i think you have mr. chairman and all the work with us, you have crafted something that while every one of us would write it a tad bit differently, in general we stand with the world against isil. i'm very happy that we're doing it. last point. our ranking members soon to be chairman said this is going nowhere. why are we doing this? the chairman answered it. that's what people said when we worked together in a bipartisan way on syrian air strikes. people said why are you doing this? at the end of the day we had impact on the ground. syria got rid of chemical weapons. i think what we do here matters. i want to send that signal today. we take the fight to isil. we don't use our ground troops to do it. >> now, we have a vote goin

isil came out of that. and if we don't have a definition of completeness there's going to be isil part two. forces coming together and their mission is to bring the caliphate over here. you don't have time to answer that. if you could jot something down and enter it into the record, i would appreciate it. have a great day. >> thank you. >> the chair now recognizes the gentleman from california. four minutes. members are reminded if they can yield back time, the ambassador has to leave in about 20 minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. obviously, this is complicated. you also laid out two prongs to that degradation, counter finance operation, to choke off isil's funding and then also breaking up the foreign fighters. how is the counter finance operation doing, drying up isil's sources of revenue and how that's impacting morale? >> i can give you anecdotes and come back in a different setting and give you some figures. we've taken offline 22 mobile -- 240 paibarrels a day almost. i can give you the specific fig

they need more heavy weapons to continue the fight against isil. we have reports from the kurdish front line in northern iraq. >> as nightfalls on the kurdish countryside peshmerga fighters take up their positions. it's under the cloud cover of darkness that isil attacks. they cannot forward to lower their guard. this is perhaps the most important front line in their fight against isil. erbil is just 60 kilometers away. >> we will continue the defending, and we will defend because in erbil, that's our city. we must be safe. >> but protecting erbil is a dangerous task. two days ago isil fighters carried out their most deeing attack on this peshmerga base. using a combination of suicide-bombers and vehicles laden with explosives they take over the base for a few hours before the kurdish forces touch it. it's the first time isil fighters have used a tank for suicide-bombing, and the peshmerga say it's the ability of them to strike that has them worried. >> some of the peshmerga bear down. >> this is the first time to have the armored tanks with the tn

isil. so all of our kinetic operations in syria is focused on isil. on the aleppo situation, we're very focused on what we can do. that is why general allen and i have made about four trips to turkey over the last couple of months and the focus of the conversation with the turks is how we might be able to work together to begin to improve the situation there, we're obviously doing a number of things with the moderate opposition, which i can't discuss here. but i can assure you that we're very focused on the situation and looking at ways to allow them to hold the line. aleppo, and surrounding areas, it's not so much isil. but what we're focusing on is isil targets, they can be very hard to find but we're looking at it very closely and our conversations with turkey specifically focussed on this question. >> that calls into question the fact that they're fighting al qaeda units as well, as you know, it calls into question our policy on safe zones. but my worry about the dithering on this is th

the kurdish forces are pushing on isil to the east and north of the mountains, villages held by isil to take before they can help the yazidi win back their land. >> yemen's new government survived a vote of confidence today. it's a move rewarded as a victory for the president and his allies and restores credibility. some belief in his ability to negotiate with the southern separatists and the houthis. >> the u.n. wants more than $7 billion to help with the terrible humanitarian crisis caused by the conflict in syria. more than 200,000 people have died in the last few years, nearly half of the entire country's population has been displaced. turkey has taken 1.7 million of those. we have a report. >> 14 hours a day, six days a week, bashir works at this bakery. from kobane, he earns $10 a day. with this, he must support an extended family of 11 who have escaped from their country's war. 1.4 million syrian refugees live in turkey outside government camps. proud families are trying to make ends meet in a country that opened its doors to them thinking they'd be here only a few months. >>

how do you defeat the ideology of isil?if it were possible to defeat them through array salts from august to now, the john would have been done the fact it has not been done proves array salts will not defeat this problem. there are two ways in my humble opinion to address the threats. one, you have got to defeat the ideology of isil, and there is only one day to do that: support the moderate muslim communities throughout the region. the second thing you have to do, unfortunately, there is no escaping this. you've got to put boots on the ground to defeat the isil terrorists once and for all. now, where this will happen, when this will happen, how this will happen is what they are discussing in brussels behind closed doors. >> josephtion, thank you very much for talking to us from beirut. >> my pleasure. >>> according to the reuters news agency, iran is denying it launched an airstrike against isil. but pentagon officials have been saying ta van carrying out strikes in areas close to its border. >>> we have seen the reports.

leaders one the deputy to the isil chief.. defense officials see it as a significant blow to the command and control of the armed group. >>> and in syria, government forces are also engaged in heavy fighting against isil. in the main gas and oil hub in the east eight isil fighters were reportedly killed near the military airport. five syrian soldiers also reported dead. now, the conflict in syria has changed its territorial map. the state has lost control of large areas of the country. and it doesn't have the soldiers to win it back. but as zeina reports, it's not about how much, but what the government controls that allows it to survive. >> reporter: more often than not, this is how the government fights back. it attacks rebel-held areas from the skies. it hasn't been able to win back all of the territory it lost to the opposition. it doesn't have enough soldiers for every frontline. it chooses its battles and fights on one front at a time. >> in my opinion it doesn't take any -- opportunity present any importance to them. i

. >> taking the fight to isil, coalition airstrikes take out 100 isil militants and free hundreds of people trapped on sinjar mountain. >> eight children found stabbed to death in australia as the country is mourning people who died in the hostage crisis early in the week. >> this is you achieve with your diplomas. >> humble words. the new role the vatican is playing on the global diplomatic state. >> this morning, the white house is debating response no that north korea is identified as the source of the hack attack on sony pictures. >> it is a national security issue, and the administration is considering options if it is proven that kim jong-un's government was involved. coney was canceled to release the film "the interview." there are script six that north korea is the only source behind this cyber attack. >> experts say the sophistication of this attack suggests that if north korea is the source, they had help from our donaries much more internet savvy, whom ever is responsible, evidence shows the hack was carried out with malicious in tent. >> as the movie posters come down, ma

shiias and their commenrations have been isil's biggest target.he iraqi government is doing everything it can to protect those making the journey. >> there is a clear-cut military deployment to protect pilgrims from any pos illtable. i saw the officers and soldiers deployed along the road leading to karbola. >> iraqi government forces have been backed by shia malishas. iran has even launched airstrikes in iraq. after initial denials, the government said it launched the attacks. it's so sensitive, the iraqi ministry of defense continues to deny iranian air involvement. >> if they are supporting this, there are some beneficial effects. iran has clear security interests on its borders, protection of its borders, protection of its people, and isil is not simply a threat to the people of iraq, the people of syria, but the people of iran as well. so, i wouldn't be surprised if there are images and if there is involvement in the air the way there is clear involvement of the iranian revoluti revolutionae guards corps personnel on the ground. >> where some

isil came out of that.if we do not have a definition of completeness there we will be a isil part two. the mission is to bring the caliphate over here. you do not have time to answer that, but if you could just something down and enter it into the record, i would appreciate it. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, california, and members are reminded, if they can yield back time, the ambassador has to leave in 20 minutes. >> obviously this is complicated to say the least mr. ambassador, you laid out three things, the grade, dismantle, and defeat isil. it looks like we are in the degrading phase. you laid out two prongs to degradation, the counter finance operation am a choke off funding and breaking up the foreign fighters. can you give us an update on how the operation is doing on drying of the sources of revenue and how that is impacting morel? >> i can give you anecdotes and come back in a different a different setting and did you figures, but we have taken off-line 22 mobile refineries

we heard that isil militants were coming. they killed my brother, my cousin, and some of my close relatives. >> with cold coming there is only plastic to cover the windows. the children struggle t to listen a normal life but there is nothing normal about this. >> joining us from new york, retired u.s. army major and fellow with the truman national security project. i want to run through as john kerry listed as success. i want to ask you about this. he said that isil's momentum has slowed. has it? >> yes, no question. it has slowed inside syria and as well. they're taking place inside the anbar province, but they've been halted. that's the power that airstrikes can do. they can hold that ground, keep that enemy were advancing. however, it can't get that back with fund memorially it has halted their advances. >> forced to change their tactics, he says. >> well, what they've done is they've gone to ground. they're not out outside as well as they used to be before. they don't travel in any open as they resupply. they have to do t

it's the first time that isil has used a tank for suicide-bombing, and it's the ability of isil to strike deep in kurdish territory that has them worried. >> body parts litter the camp. >> this is the first time they have armor tanks with tnt and suicide people, they're coming to our front lines, and it's the last chance to hav. >> they attack towns held by isil. the kurdish forces have made modest gains against isil in recent days, but their weapons, they say, are old and no match for their opponents. >> we need the heavy machine guns, of course, because all that we use is very old. it's from the iraq and iran war. that's very old. the newest one is 25 years old. but ammunition is good. >> they call for more action against the isil group. peshmerga remains its most formidable group on the ground. they say they need immediate help or isil could come charging against across northern iraq. >> tens of thousands have gathered in new york city for the funerals of two police officers killed by a gunman last week. many mourned and filled the streets to pay their respects. the gunmen who killed t

-lead air strikes have destroyed a isil tactical unit. they now control the entire area east of the sinjar mountains. >>> fifa has agreed to publish a report into allegations of corruption. this week the report investigator resigned after saying his findings had been misrepresented. >>> tushish state television has reported that an arrest war rent has been issued for the cliric fa houla gulen. he has been living in the u.s. since 1999. bernard smith has more from istanbul. >> reporter: the request for the arrest of gulen comes exactly one year after widespread, wide-ranging corruption allegations first emerged against people close to then prime minister, now president, erdogan. a couple of ministers were forced to resign. erdogan said that gulen and his supporters were behind allegations of corruption. in the months afterwards, members of the judiciary connected to the organization were forced to resign, fired or reassigned. and then exactly a year on, media organizations sympathetic to gulen were raided, people were arrested, and four of

it's the first time isil fighters have used a tank for suicide bombing.ga say it's the ability of isil to strike deep in kurdish territory that has them worried. some of the peshmerga tents are burned down, body parts litter the camp. the general is a peshmerga commander. >> it's the first time to have the armored cars, the tanks with the tnt and suicides people they coming to our frontline. they are trying the last chance to have -- to push the mesh pese back but they cannot do. >> reporter: we drove across villages and towns spar slamly held by isil. the residents long gone. they have made modest gains against ice nil recent days, but their weapons they say are old and no match for their opponents. >> we need weapons, we need heavy machine guns, of course, because all what we are using is very old. it's from iraq and iran war, it's very old. and the newest went is 25 years old. but still, the ammunition is good, we have it from the coalition. >> reporter: they call for more action against isil group. the peshmerga remain the group's most formidably oppo

fighting for or on behalf of isil. and a potential closely related successor entity. surely we have to account for the possibility that this group changes its name. it's been called several things here during the course of the process. but it's still the same group at the end of the day. so that's one way in which we try to control not an endless pursuit across many different boundaries. and the other is, as it relates to the geographic limitation, that's not an amendment i can support. while i appreciate the effort of what the senator's trying to do, it would in essence create the possibility that isil could establish sanctuaries in other countries other than iraq and syria. and in doing so, would not be able to feel the power of america might with its allies includeing simply air strikes. so i think that is -- that is not something that is the wisest way to achieve the goal. with that, i assume the senator wants a recorded vote. clerk will call the roll. >> no. >> no. >> mr. durbin? >> no. >> udall? >> aye. >> mr. mu

this isn't america versus isil. this is the people of that region versus isil. it's the world versus isil. now, i thoroughly agree with that. if there are folks who think we ought to put our troops on the ground in another ground war so be it. speak out now. offer an amendment. that's your right and i respect it, but i strongly disagree with it. and i think you have, mr. chairman, and all the work with us, you have crafted something that while everyone of us would write it a tad bit differently, in general we stand with the world against isil. and i'm very happy that we're doing it. very last point. our ranking member soon to be chairman said this is going nowhere, why are we doing this? i think the chairman answered it, but that's what people said when we work together in a bipartisan way on this syria air strikes. people said, why are you doing it? it's 6:00 a.m. in the morning. why are you meeting? why are you doing this? at the end of the day, we had an impact on the ground and syria got rid of its chemical weapons. so i think what we do here matters. so i w

isil is -- has many lebanese hostages.h lower levels of payments which keeps the money coming in as well. these are -- they are paid off because they are smaller amounts. there's also, sadly, many individual donors from around the world that continue to fund this ideology and fund isil. one of the reasons why u.n. security council resolution -- 182170 took place is because -- to prevent individuals from any country breaking the law that you can stop individuals rather than countries, can continue to fund terrorism in this manner. >> i understand all of that. really, i should have asked a more direct question. is there any action being taken to try and disrupt the black market in oil? >> there's a number of sites, without giving too much away, but there are -- >> i understand. >> i think you said on an earlier committee which looks into this as well, there are operationally we are trying to disturb the oil patterns. >> i'm content to leave it at that. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. it's really helpful to have

they also have cut an isil supply line. three months of air strikes, car bombs and fighting have reduced much of kobani to rubble. isil fighters still control the eastern side of kobani, and they have a supply route open there. the group, though, has faced its stiffest resistance from the town having pushed easily through other parts of syrian and iraq. syrian kurdish fighters defending kobani are backed up by iraqi fighters and u.s.-led coalition air strikes. bernard smith, al jazeera, istanbul. >>> in neighboring iraq the army says it's killed more than 100 isil fighters in anbar province will the last 24 hours. there's been intense fighting in the cities. tribesmen on the ground are supporting coalition air strikes and iraqi security forces. jane araff has more now from baghdad. >> reporter: from suicide vehicle bombs to mortars and snipers, there's been intense fighting. it started with a suicide bomber driving a humvee, one of the u.s.-made humvees used by the iraq army and seized by isil as they took over large parts

about isil and the abuses specifically. we had an amazing panel including a woman who is the only member of parliament talk to us about what it's like. it appeared today in the daily beast. it is taken from a question and answer. it's unbelievable. that answers questions of the recruits as they come into isil or dash or whatever they want to call them. can i put this in the record? i will give you a sample. i want people to not be upset and i think we can't not talk about this. can all women be taken captive? there is no dispute. it is permissible to capture unbelieving women. question, is it permissible to have intercourse with a female captive. answer, it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a female captive. they quote alla. if you do, you are free from blame. question five, is it permissible immediately after taking possession of her. he, her master can have intercourse with her immediately after taking possession of her, however if she is not a virgin, her uterus must be purified. this is disgusting garbage.

isil, the global threat, 60 countries attend a u.s.ead summit, but a joint effort is far from certain. >>> the iranian ambassador's residence is targeted in yemen. a bomb blast leaves at least one person dead. >>> the trial of kenya's president hangs in the balance with the international criminal court giving the prosecution one week to get the case together. ♪ >>> and israel will hold early elections in march of next year after the ruling coalition collapses. ♪ >>> rep senttives of some of the world's most powerful nations are meeting in brussel to try to figure out how to defeat always. john kerry is asking for foreign ministers to come up with some kind of coordinated strategy. 12 of those countries, including the u.s. are involved in air strikes against isil in iraq and syria. the u.s. has dropped 942 bombs or missiles in the two countries combined, while the rest of the coalition forces have dropped 18 bombs. kerry says some they have hurt them significant, but some analysts say ground troops are a must. joining us now from brusse

his jet went down and isil members captured him. isil claims it shot down the plane. the pentagon said there is clear evidence that is not what brought down the plane. joining us to discuss the fate of the pilot is jim walsh, a research associate joining us. describe jordan's role in the coalition. up until now, we've assumed that most of the sorties have been flown by u.s. fighter pilots. >> i think you're absolutely right about that. you'll remember going back to month or two months ago, we had this big fanfare of airstrikes against isil where we had a number of different countries participating. since then, those countries have faded to the background. it's really the u.s. that's been carrying out most of the airstrikes. in this ways, this pilot's very unlucky given the small number of flights jordan has been flying, for them to lose a plane is unfortunate, but should remind americans that even with great american technology, planes can malfunction or be shot down. when we put airmen and women in the air in iraq and syria this is what may take place. >> there are s