isolated pockets of isis resistance remain and. the task of mopping up isis resistance and check out what's been left in the hands of different local militias one of the most high profile of these is led by we're here to mohammad al jamal the better known as a model. i think that there are special for you and i disappointed never let anything. on my i mean in the not in front and i know many muslims and you know. that this is the photo of it all and these are white. she has a special insight so. we're unsure kat about eighty kilometers south of mosul accompanied by our interpreter we're about to meet the local militias near legendary commander that is it. so. warmly received by what he did mohammed first glance it's hard to imagine how this forty year old woman could have such a ferocious reputation but she and her eighty man militia played a key role in driving out of town and i've since shown the determination to keep it that way. that she. left a lot. of it's been home and. surrounds us africa in the house more than our. name am

this divide, and writing about isis, i rarely refer to isis as isis because i don't subscribe to the idea that it was ever a legitimate caliphate or legitimate government. essentially cooked up version of a tear any with a lot of trappings. that were very attractive to people. that debate is an important one with the sense that the muslim community here and where they said with regard to legitimacy and augmentation with the other piece here and there was always an anti-muslim cast. the muslim community here, it is more ferland and the arab spring unleash a new torrent of debate where the muslim community really sits and in the meantime the coverage of the nypd case in court, racial profiling, this is a very real concern, does walk up to that line, freedom of speech and protection from undue search and seizure and hard to ignore but even more hard to ignore the muslim community feels profiled, a space and is monolithic in some way or another. there is a twist here and there is a reference but there are parallels in belgium in particular and france, belgium is a special case and they l

last year we saw isis seize a city in the philippines and earlier this month isis inspired terrorists carried out a series of attacks in churches and police station in indonesia. i recently met with indonesians working hard to counter terrorist ideology in their country. indonesia stands as a potent antidote to extremism. it has a proud history of religious tolerance. landfall year a group of indonesians published an 8,000 word on humanitarian islam that reflects the best of the country's traditions. they focused on three areas. increase religious understanding and mutual respect, emphasizing what they term humane dimensions of tir fate. they want to promote critical thinking skills to provide people to resist the song of terrorism. it's voices like these that must be ified. they share the values that america holds dear and they are critical partners in our effort to defeat terrorist ideology. like indonesia, jordan is also a center of pluralism. top jordanian officials supported interfaith dialogues that callor peace and tolerance both within the islamic community and other religious

>> wherever you see isis affiliate or isis inspired violence, it's importanr us to use the full suite of national tools there. law enforcement will be appropriate in places like the philippines. military tools will be important in places like the philippines. like we saw with the liberation of mindanao, in the past year. but, cve tools will bea part of that conversation as well. >> terrific. we have an interesting question about iraq. the house last week passed a sanction to iraqi militias. one was of course th ahl al- haq, which won parliament last week. to see this hindering? >> yeah, you know, that is such a fresh issue, involving pending legislation on which the administration may or may not have taken a position, that i'm going to punt on that one. >> okay, fair enough. and, we have another question about continuity and disagreements between the obama administration and policy in the trump administration's, cve policy. how is what you are doing new or different? or how does it doubled down and deepen what had already begun under president obama? >> i think you see a lot of contin

there answer be no, isis is a terrorist group. you are posting isis on, isis is terrorist group. my question for all of you, how should we stop this idea? because i believe if we don't stop these ideas, isis will repeat and happen again everywhere and every time in the history. thank you. >> can i ask real quick what-- i don't know how old you are, but with regard to education and upbringing, can i ask what time frame? >> back to the question-- >> i am so sorry, you don't have to answer. >> i was born in 1978. >> okay. >> yeah. so i mean, coinciding to sort of the transition with to rolelion played in the iraqi, particularly the military too, there was and coinciding to the promotion of islam by the saudi government. these things are trickling in all over the world and becoming the dominant thing to which interpret religion. i think it is not just about the idea, the amerrpinstitute, i think she said in order to counter that we don't just counter the ideology or break up the network, but need to understand the social movement and the way it pulls, particularly in areas of conflic

i think the divide, even in my own work and writing about isis, i rarely referred to isis as isis, i don't subscribe to the idea that it was legitimate government. that is not what was represented there, it was essentially cooked up version of tyranny. with a lot of-- you know, very attracted to people. that debate is really a very important one in the sense that i think the muslim community here is not-- it has a lot of debates about where they sit with regard to legitimacy of the argumentation, the thelogical debateerize very real-- debates are real. the other piece is to remember, prior to 9/, there was always anti-muslim to a lot of the way we talk about the muslim community he but obviously afterwards it became more, certainly i think the arab springs unleash new torrent of debate around where does the muslim community really sit inside the united states? in the meantime, of course, we know well nypd case in court on racial profiling, that this is very real concern, that it does lock up to the line, association, freed sech, and seizure, all of this is in here. hard to ignore. ve

let me catch a glimpse of the two alleged isis men. i see in six and aim for a case me tear into a monitor for all from both britain. and if you were next to. me. also. said the comment that such matters not so. much that you any competent stay in the car on a send off because you have a surprise mob his mother doesn't know the time at which a woman believed to be working with isis has also been captured. i don't mean to be a gun i'll get to the i don't know it's just not there to most of us about on it but on the other minute upmost demanded of how did it come up that i was with thomas trying to do this without reading this article to say that at least a good idea. was at the end the woman was loaded up with two separate trucks the mail business and or driven convoys back towards where he was headquarters the further interrogation. you. had to deal with the people come up out. on the way back to shake. the vehicles a halted in the middle of nowhere. the president was on the gonna. cry. our interpreter tells us oh he just stopped the c

let me catch a glimpse of the two alleged isis men. i saw in six and aim for a case me tear into a monitor for over about her bringing them. in and you were never. any of. us are. upset because that sounds kind of not so. much that you any competent stay in the car on a set off because you have a surprise mob his mother doesn't know the time. it's a woman believed to be working with isis has also captured. the identity become a global goodwill of the i don't know it's just not there to most of us about on it but on the other minute up to the how did it come up that i was really going to talk honestly about it it was about just how to say that at least a good idea was. that the more the woman was loaded up with two separate trucks the male business and or driven convoy back towards where he was headquarters the further tell geisha. you. had yelled. at me come up. to me. on the way back to shake. the vehicles a halted in the middle of nowhere. the president was on the gonna. be. our interpreter tells us oh he just stopped the convoy to e

i learned what isis is now teaching because of that it was no surprise f me, isis occupation in mosulhe people in mosul actually welcomed isis and i was, at that time, working withrganization, we did focus group but actually for the first weeks the equation, we did this, fox group with young people, some of them i still. [inaudible] this is first time leaving under islamic state. now because of myor every day i'm facing people who post on social media, it's post that similar isis idea. when i engage with them and say do you believe in isis, they are unsure, they know isis is a terroristic group. my question for all of you, how should we stop these ideas because i believe if we don't stop these ideas, isis will repeat and it will happen again everywhere and every time in this history. thank you. >> i asked grow quick, what years? i don't know wha how old you are but can i ask what time frame. >> i was born in 1978. okay. so coinciding with the transition to the world that we live in particularlyhe military there was and also coincided to the rapid promotion by the saudi government. the

isis to make a more egresssive example, still the group that engenders the most fear and headlines, isis grew out of the sunni insurgency that fight in the iraq. as general put it, quote, there would be no isis if we had not invaded iraq. as early as 2006, u.s. national intelligence estimate on trends and global terrorism found the iraq war was, quote, shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives. the war had become a cause celebrated for jihadist. the hard numbers bear it out. in 2015, number of fatalities by 2015, the number of fatalities from terrorism in the middle east had increased by a staggering 397 percent since 2001. and in seven countries that the united states either bombed or invaded since 9/11, terrorist attacks, the number of individual terrorist attacks rose by astonishing 9,000 percent. and so a spike inter rhythm follows u.s. military intervention in these countries. if anything, open-ended authorization for the u.s. military force in the middle east has made us less safe and not more. i fully ask the impulse to ask, what are you suggest we do nothing? a

isis-inspired,d -inspired, or lone wolf threats. in the third category is that they are entrapped by undercover for a phony plot. it is almost comical level of stupidity and ineptitude that these would-be attackers have, and a lot of experts believe they never would've had the ability or initiative to conduct the attack without the fabricated sting operation. isis has never once conducted a successful terrorist attack here on u.s. soil. there is only such a thing as isis-inspired attacks. the blank check for war on these countries does nothing to stop this. you might as will argue that u.s. military action could have prevented sandy hook. there is this dramatic disconnect between fear felt here at home about the threat of the actual utility that specific u.s. military operations have been preventing attacks here. the taliban is another group specifically mentioned in the mf, but it isthe au not clear why. they are only a threat to to the extent of americans living amongst them in afghanistan. one actually claims the taliban is going

general for tiered -- general patrice said, there would be no isis if we had not invaded iraq. as early as 2006, on trends in glob terrism, they found that the iraq war was shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives, it was a cause celebre railing against the u.s. involvement in the middle east, and for the jihad. that is true generally, the hard numbers bared out, in 2015, the number of fatality -- by 2015, the number of fatalities from terrorism had increased by staggering 397% since 2001, and in the seven countries that the united states either bombed or renovated since 9/11, terrorist attacks, the number of individual terrorist attacks rose by an astonishing 1900%, and the data don't show any such spike in the comparable countries that the u.s. did not intervene in. so a spike in terrorism follows u.s. in -- military intervention in these countries. if anything, open-ended authorizations of military force has made us less safe, and not more. and i fully understand the impulse to ask, are you suggesting we do nothing? there are several responses. first of a

the focus on the isis campaign has been in syria and iraq but isis has a foothold in afghanistan continues to launch attacks. to what extent is the islamic state province a threat to stability and security of afghanistan? >> estimates are broad but perhaps 2000 up to 5000 exist. they have some other terrorist groups whether it's the tele- banner others. but i think we have to be concerned we have targeted this heavily where there has been an outpost. it is a reminder to us there's something worse. then an insurgency that is nationalist in nature. it is a threat we take seriously and have devoted significant aspects to eradicating. >> indeed, a safe haven for isis for islamic terrorists there has direct consequence here. has the changes in the isis relationships in the area or activity in operational abilities, to what extent is the group a target of u.s. operations are strategic planning? >> isis is a reminder of why we are still in afghanistan and need to have this commitment to afghanistan. they pay us in the insecurities they have created has allowed this petri dish for other groups to

of isis. we don't know what it's going to be called. there could be a lot of different ways it will come. it will use the isis template to letter. what will it do with it that is different? let's assume it won't be able to take over territory the size of the united kingdom and a population the size of switzerland for all sorts of reasons that we know. one area which i would - it's a question and one idea. these groups have alway taken whatever the latest technology is. for al qaeda, you know, at the beginning it was like -- even before it was al qaeda, it was a magazine called jihad. and then it was broadband video. they're early opters of whatever is available. right now, it's virtual reality technology. you kn, is it relatively possible soon for a jihadist group -- because, you know, encouraging people not to join the jihad and all the costs that come with it, but to set up virtual reality training camps. is that the next wave? >> it's certainly a fascinating idea to think about. you know, j

isolated pockets of isis resistance remain and. the task of mopping up isis resistance and check out what's been left in the hands of different local militias one of the most high profile of these is led by we're here to mohammed al jamal the better known as a model. i think that there are special for you and i disappointed never let anything. on my i mean in the not and i mean and i know many muslims that you know . this is the photo of it all and these are white. she has a special insight so. we're unsure kat about eighty kilometers south of mosul accompanied by our interpreter we're about to meet the local militias near legendary commander that is it. now need these guys. so. warmly received by what he did mohammed first glance it's hard to imagine how this forty year old woman could have such a ferocious reputation but she and her eighty man militia played a key role in driving isis out of town and i've since shown the determination to keep it that way. that she. left a lot. of it's been home and. surrounded in a house more tha

isis is going through a phase. isis today is where al qaeda was after 2001. it's going from a proto state now to an underground terrorist organization. the idea is not al qaeda or isis or any name or aqap or al shabab, the idea is the message and narrative that they have. christiane, before 9/11 al qaeda had 400 members. 400 members, 19 of them were killed on that day. today the people who adhere to the narrative of osama bin laden are in the thousands. look at syria in idlib. look at al shabab movement in snol ya. look at yemen. before we only have afghanistan. we had kandahar, kabul, jalalabad, a couple training camps. now because of many different things to include the failures that happen in the aftermath of the arab spring, we have vacuums and vacuums all across the muslim world and unfortunately extremists, people like al qaeda and isis are the only ones who are able to fill these vacuums. >> that is a lot more apocalyptic that i thought. we get told the caliphate is over, that it's been disrupted, that there are attacks against all these terrorist cell

the enemy which is part of modern warfare it's much more effective than it used to be and because isis was demonized and one can say well rightfully it was demons but it allowed the coalition to carry out this war of total destruction and with the with the insistence that all isis members should be killed on the battlefield and captured and this meant that there was a great hesitancy to negotiate and this is what we've just been hearing from your other commentator here in beirut is that negotiations are crucial you cannot demonize the other side to the point where it becomes ok to kill large numbers of civilians in order to and we've seen it in this war and every side civilians have been tracked and they've been used as hostages because air power is so devastating the only place for groups like isis or other militias to harvest in urban areas and they have to maintain the population with them in order to try to scare you know the coalition or the syrian and russian air force not to bomb because they'll be worried about the collateral damage and this leads to an escalation and in a in a

husbands would be isis fighters? what do you think happened7m husbands would be isis fighters?ned? in their life, it was the spark, the spark was the mother who lit the spark. when she felt like, ok, the skinny jeans, i don't like it. how can we get them back? she's the one in the family who is not integrated, she never learned norwegian. she was living in norway but in somalia in her head so she did the only thing that she knew of and she would have donein that she knew of and she would have done in somalia, if there was a problem in the family, you go to the local mosque and you ask the imams, give me advice. and the email had advice. he said, there is this great courant teacher, his name is more staff, is 19 years old, he is beautiful, he is his reputation of drawing children, teenagers, it is long. she and her girlfriends, in this part outside oslo, they hired him and that was the start of their journey. you are a parent and one day your girls are wearing skinny jeans and they somehow end up wearing a niqab, the full dress, which is not even in the somali tradition. at some

there are lots of families, ibts of that were split between isis and fighting isis. but as for the foreigners, they are, as you point out, bein given very harsh sentences, even if all they defense marry isisr fightersome in with them. >> sreenivasan: you mentioned that these are people who have come into iraq in some cases. what about the countries where they came from? where they willing to take them back? >> so right now iraq is holding about 56 these women. most of them, majority of them, are from turkey, and a lot of them are from russia. and then others are from eastern european republics. there are very few westerners in this group. they're nosthe onlisis trials gog. iraq is believed to have tried almost 10,00 iraqis on terrorism charges, but these women e coming up for trial now, and a lot of them have already been tried and convict. >> woodruff: let's talk little bit about the kind of enequivocal minutes here, the children who are caught in this. what happens to them as their mothers are sent either to prisonor perhaps put to death? >> well, that's the really

i mean because i know how it is isis eeriest charge and i've been involved because i know how they do things so i'm not talking we all do without an attorney. but why didn't he when he don't hate us because. you know i said. i was caught up in history cultural my ass it we don't talk to the police you don't form one of the people right but what if you know that it came to me and i mean i'm not saying it's right or wrong you know saying i mean if it was. some i heard a child in this different you know i mean this is i'm thirty one years old now so i see the nonsense and his quote unquote rules all these drug dealers and gamers stuff. i'm not saying it's right but it's what i'm here to at the time and at the time it was to me i'm not so it probably is nothing and so i didn't know that they would put it on me and i will get these people in trouble to get myself out of trouble it was my whole business and writes i'm not going to say now had i known that they were going to get the state was against me already that oh is it over love you know but at the same time i'm doing as a mom to let m

let's start with the counter-isis campaign. you could tell a story about a strategy developed by the previous administration well underway by january 20 last year. and it more or less continues and i think that is to the credit of the trump the foreign service officers ailitary personnel and intelligence community members. a campaign on the ground in iraq retakena that has something close to 90% or 95%, clearly squeezed and pressured the group. that sounds like continuity and a good thing. on the other hand, zoom out a little bit and the pieces that go around counterterrorism do not look quite as tidy or defined by continuity. you look at the diplomacy and it looks a little bit shakier. part of the reason that progress occurred as quickly as it did is because the u.s. had capable counterterrorism partners on the ground. in syria that was led by the syrian kurds. the same folks that would continue to clear isis from that pocket in euphrates. but i say this in large part thanks to eric's reporting on this, you have the kurds larg

let me start with the counter isis campaign. you can tell a story of a strategy developed by the previous administration well under way by the time you get to january 20 of last year, and that more or less continues. that's very much to the credit of the trump administrations and to the foreign service officers and military personnel and intelligence community members, all those folks implementing it. a campaign on the ground in iraq and syria that has now retaken something close to 90, 95%. you see somewhat differing estimatesf the territory the group once held that has clearly squeezed the group, pressured the group, and that sounds like a lot of continuity and a very good thing. on the other hand you zoom out a little bit and the pieces that go around counterterrorism don't look quite as tidy, don't look quite as much defined by continuity. look at the diplomacy critical to that campaign and it starts to look shakier. part of the reason that progress occurred and occurred as quickly as it did and i think both luke and steven

, isis has no place in norway and if my sister still supports isis i don't want her in norway.ory but i want to draw a link, if i may, with another extraordinary story you wrote, one of us, the story of anders breivik, the norwegian citizen who murdered 70 of his fellow citizens. and he didn't fit in either, and he was a white ethnic norwegian. he didn't fit into society. you see some kinds of parallels, at least, between people believing, in his case, a kind of fascist ideology, and the girls, although they were utterly different, that they didn't fit in? it's easy to find parallels in their ideologies. theyjoin up, if you feel weak you want to join something strong. these two books are actually both books about belonging. in the sisters' case, they did belong, and they had ambitions. 0ne wanted to work for the united nations and one wanted to become a lawyer. i would say that they are going in, unfortunately, they are meeting all these people who tell them, other muslims, who told them, no, you don't belong here. they were not pushed out by their norwegian classmates. they we

and their affiliates in isis strongholds what they will do is actually move it into a city where there are civilians and move into their homes now if those civilians don't escape on time they're going to be killed if they try to escape so if they don't get out they're going to be there and they're always used as collateral damage we had forces outside of baghdad in iraq that had to kill civilians just to get out isis stronghold locations so this is something that we do know and i think that's one thing the commander is talking about it is highly unfortunate some of the stories that amnesty pointed to that so many family members die even one of them being a baby in these airstrikes being somebody who's been in areas where isis has been liberated because of coalition airstrikes it is very clear to see the damage that is done to homes from the air strikes however in some of these villages the villagers who have survived some of them were able to escape before isis came in and are so happy that isis is gone they don't have to worry about they're happy to rebuild but again i mean this are t

and it's the the syrian regime -- defeat isis and everyone will go back that's simply not true.he reason -- that so many people fled their homes is because bombing but reason so many people stayed and will stay even if -- the regime wins is that the regime has one of the most brutal -- systems of incarceration and torture and -- there are 1.5 million syrians on a government wandt right now. many of them young men who -- like didn't do their army service. and people who have returned there's recently report i want to say irish times -- three young guy who is return to help their families and three young guys who haven't done army service and getting tortured or sent to the front or in some places there getting killed it -- so ting -- i think while returning i think is something so many syrians want to do it is dependent on whether people can return and be safe. there's a question in the back and go back to the center i think i saw a hand. there. here. so as a woman -- [inaudible conversations] to the last question -- should we expect a memoir from a woman's perspective or male ha

the focus on the isis campaign has been in syria and iraq but isis has a foothold in afghanistan continues to launch attacks. to what extent is the islamic state province a threat to stability and security of afghanistan? >> estimates are broad but perhaps 2000 up to 5000 exist. they have some other terrorist groups whether it's the tele- banner others. but i think we have to be concerned we have targeted this heavily where there has been an outpost. it is a reminder to us there's something worse. then an insurgency that is nationalist in nature. it is a threat we take seriously and have devoted significant aspects to eradicating. >> indeed, a safe haven for isis for islamic terrorists there has direct consequence here. has the changes in the isis relationships in the area or activity in operational abilities, to what extent is the group a target of u.s. operations are strategic planning? >> isis is a reminder of why we are still in afghanistan and need to have this commitment to afghanistan. they pay us in the insecurities they have created has allowed this petri dish for other groups to

hafez: isis. >> anthony: isis is number one. >> mr. hafez: number one. they are against. >> anthony: recently hezbollah has become heavily involved in the war in syria in defense of the assad regime. complicating matters and, uncomfortably enough, they are probably the best organized, best equipped, most serious obstacle to isis and al qaeda in the area. >> mr. hafez: most of the villages in the east of lebanon, they are christian, and they are sunni. if hezbollah wasn't there, it was no more christian in that area. this is the only reason i get the gun. this is the only reason for it. just to protect my children and my wife. >> anthony: twenty years, thirty years, will things be better? >> mr. hafez: i hope so. i hope not twenty years and thirty years, i hope now, next year, everything goes better. i hate war. save 33% or more on select teva men's and ladies' sandals. and bring the kids for free workshops and activities. previously treated withd platinum-based chemotherapy, including those with an abnormal alk or egfr gene who've tried an fda-approved t

led coalition fighting isis in iraq violated international law and may have committed war crimes here are the reports main findings hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands wounded by coalition strikes this crime disproportionate and indiscriminate i still use civilians as human shields by the coalition didn't take enough precautionary to avoid casualties british and french forces were also involved by the us was a responsible for more than ninety percent of. more attacks were launched on than an aware since the vietnam war called on the coalition to investigate claims of violations publicly acknowledge the scale of devastation and compensate victims a coalition spokesman says persistent efforts were made to minimize harm to civilians. the u.s. led a four month campaign dubbed a war of annihilation by defense secretary james mattis to flash ice a lot of rocca coalition warplanes and special troops supported an offensive launched by mainly kurdish syrian democratic forces as d.f. to take the city rock lies in the north of syria and i still declared it the capital of its caliphat

we are talking about al saab crab and isis in somalia. we all wish they were not there and we all wish they were not trying to kill us in the united states but they are there and that's why we have troops there still and i commend you and i commend your son and every other soldier, sailor and marine that we have there, continuing to carry the fight for 17 years in afghanistan to keep the country safe. that's something that probably none of them want to do. they all wish, like you had wished in 2001 that they were not having to do it, but as you say, if we precipitously withdraw, the on thing that's going to happen in afghanistan is that they'll going to plot to attack us again here in our home. thank you and god speed in afghanistan. >> thank you, ten or cotton. senator scott. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general, thank you for being here this morning and thank you for coming by my office last week and spending some quality time. i think the time was well spend and certainty appreciate the time that we focused on your current assignment an

the enemy which is part of modern warfare it's much more effective than it used to be and because isis was demonized and one can say well rightfully it was demons but it allowed the coalition to carry out this war of total destruction and with the with the insistence that all isis members should be killed on the battlefield and captured and this meant that there was a great hesitancy to negotiate and this is what we've just been hearing from your other commentator here in beirut is that negotiations are crucial you cannot demonize the other side to the point where it becomes ok to kill large numbers of civilians in order to and we've seen in this war on every side civilians have been tracked and they've been used as hostages because air power is so devastating the only place for groups like isis or other militias to harvest in urban areas and they have to maintain the population with them in order to try to scare you know the coalition or the syrian and russian air force not to bomb because they'll be right about the collateral damage and this leads to an escalation and in a in a sense

the enemy which is part of modern warfare it's much more effective than it used to be and because isis was demonized and one can say well rightfully it was demons but it allowed the coalition to carry out this war of total destruction and with the with the insistence that all isis members should be killed on the battlefield and captured and this meant that there was a great hesitancy to negotiate and this is what we've just been hearing from your other commentator here in beirut is that negotiations are crucial you cannot demonize the other side to the point where it becomes ok to kill large numbers of civilians in order to and we've seen in this war on every side civilians have been tracked and they've been used as hostages because air power is so devastating the only place for groups like isis or other militias to harvest in urban areas and they have to maintain the population with them in order to try to scare you know the coalition or the syrian and russian air force not to bomb because they'll be worried about the collateral damage and this leads to an escalation and in a in a sen

a horn can feed 75,000 isis followers for 12 months. >> isis create i6 to generate revenue to fund their activities. oil on the black market. stolen anticities and criminal activity. >> in a sense time for south africa. violent crime and unemployment are soaring, and the president zum ma va was ousted earlier this year. >> border control and law enforcement are overstretched, concerns about corruption and there are large areas of land that are unguarded. >> and now isis on the run, after losing the capital to government forces and making south africa more appealing. >> law enforcement and terrorism authorities are concerned it will be an attractive safe haven for fighters. >> and that land, owned by largely white farmers, is now frequently under attack. farmers assaulted and animals poached, making farmer in south africa a dangerous occupation. ryan that 911's co- founder's farm has been attacked four times. a fifth attempt while we were there. do you have any idea why it happen snnchth they take everything they can take. and unfortunately, we are lucky to be living. they need to die her

dozens were killed, isis now claiming one of the attacks. we are live in the middle east puree with connor. who was the exact specific target of these attacks? >> this cease-fire did not stop all the violence in afghanistan. they were real was important because it was an agreement between the afghan government and the taliban. we saw the taliban goes into cities, laid on weapons and celebrate the muslim holiday. the problem with this cease-fire is it did not include isis who launched a series of attacks on the taliban fighters. both the afghan government and the caliban our enemies and isis used these cease-fires to attack the caliban in two different situations. yesterday they killed 36 people, all taliban fighters. this was really important for the afghan government and the taliban but it excluded others. what we saw was that they used the opportunity to attack the taliban afghanistan. >> with isis out for blood against the taliban what is the potential of the cease-fire being extended or actually potentially being held at some point? >> t

in the future from isis.t. talking about the terror threat, ijust wanted to touch on america, because there has been some concern about some of the anti—american sentiment coming from anti—american sentiment coming from a party. i give you just one example, a chant was led recently in lahore claiming that everyone has a friend to the us as a traitor. this isa friend to the us as a traitor. this is a country that has given pakistan about $67 billion, admittedly most of it in military aid, and yet it has been a very generous donor. so what is your position. just set the record straight. are anti—american? well, first of all, she has her view of dahmer views. they are always within a political party, there are views ranging from one side to another. so every party has that. but let me make it clear. hackers found has to be friends with america. the united states as a superpower —— pakistan. but where most of us felt deeply hurt is when donald trump blamed pakistan for the failure of the united states in afghanis

don't we done pretty well i think about it in the spring summer of two thousand and fourteen when isis was captured the city of mosul in iraq and then went rolling down the highway there and captured to create and flew and all those places and now with our help the government of iraq has succeeded in pushing the isis out of there out of all those places and inflicted a lot of casualties on them so i think they're on their back foot you never can count these people out entirely because they they reappear in some other form in some other place but i think their ability to conduct kind of main force operations which they were doing at one point and to hold on to large pieces of territory or to hold on there was a city like mosul i think those days are behind them so i think it's right to say that considerable success has been achieved against isis john stay right there we'll have some more moments with john negroponte more politicking after the break . radially reinforced rammed earth bricks is what they really are. there's more than seventy houses about one hundred forty people with fami

and that was a group of activists turned citizen journalists, and they documented how isis took over their city and how they, you know, protested and really resisted against that. and what happened to these, this group of men and so most of them are in germany now, but it's a really powerful film because it's made of their footage as well as it goes against the belief that what we talked about before about if you're against the regime, that means you must be with isis. these are the people who protested first and then found themselves in a situation where nobody imagined them to be. a powerful film about refugees, but it's not made by syrians, is salam neighbor, and it's made by two of our friends. >> right. >> they created a really powerful film about what is like to live in a refugee camp in jordan by living there for a month. and it's a really powerful film that also gives a lot of space to syrian voices and not assuming and coming in and flying out. so it has that depth, though not made by syrians. >> some other titles that come to mind, there's "haunted," "our terrible country,"

i put isis and them in an external threat. we mention the context of our current work. i go back to transnational groups. i know they communicate external to afghanistan, they trade tactics, techniques and procedures. there's media, there's inspiration that is driven out of these two groups. i see both of them as clear transnational threats. they have their desire to attack the united states or western groups. >> without our presence, their desire plus the capabilities would pose a real immediate or eminent threat to the united states. >> yes. there needs to be pressure on them, military pressure as well as consolidation to disrupt and start breaking them down. >> thank you, sir. >> i like to take this opportunity to ask a question pertaining to your current position as commander of the special operations command. the men and women you lead have been instrumental in killing or capturing terrorists on the battlefield and would like nothing better than to attack americans as you just suggested, your home. however, the national defense strategy identifies the need to count

last month during a meeting with nigeria's president donald trump said we have very much decimated isis this follows his december declaration that the us military had not the hell out of the islamic state you've witnessed the birth of isis or syria i should say that well. over one very shallow level that statement is correct in the sense that yes we've knocked them out. where it's incorrect is and what we haven't yet done we have removed their physical state their protein nice and state that they created when i just read cob the borders of the middle east and redrew them right there under the noses of the international community and we're still feeling the aftershocks of that we have removed that we've destroyed that however the organization it still still remains robust and as we're learning from a lot of the intelligence material it's being hoovered up from the former so it's prisoners who are being interrogated in iraq and elsewhere is that these gongs were prepared to go back underground they were prepared for the loss so. there is there so i become a fight that remains very strong

now isis is claiming responsibility for one of the attacks. conner powell joins us from our middle east bureau. >> afghan president announced that the historic cease-fire would be extended, past the celebrations which end on sunday. but the taliban rejected his offer, saying they will return to the battlefield on monday. now despite this temporary truce between the taliban and afghan security forces, isis militants showed no mercy this weekend, launching a series of attacks. isis was not part of the cease-fire and views both the taliban and the afghan government as enemies. on saturday, isis attacked a gathering ofaliban fighters who were publicly celebrating the three-day truce, killing at least 36 people. and today they struck once more with a bomb again targeting taliban fighters near the city of jalalabad, killing 19. despite these attacks, u.s. and afghan officials are hailing the cease-fire as an important steppingstone towards peace talks between the taliban and the afghan government. the two sides are long been talking, but now appear

, space isis. but do we really need a space force? >> it doesn't make a lot of sense, we would be wasting a lot of dollars, but at the same time it would be cool. >> let me just unpack what you just said. >> right. >> we need to have a space force. it's going to be a waste of money. >> yup. >> but it's going to be cool. >> right. >> but we need to have it. you stand by that statement. >> i stand by that statement 100%. >> pretty much we need regulations in space. >> isn't trump against regulation? >> yeah. but as a-- yeah. you know what, space force. it's just a cool name. >> it's a cool name. and that's good enough. space force! ( cheers and applause ). >> trevor: space force, everyone! we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ no calories. no sweeteners. all smiles. introducing bubly sparkling water. i do. check out the new united explorer card. saving on this! saving on this! saving in here. rewarded! learn more at theexplorercard.com i was eating a milky way. hey pass me that bug spray. at least it was spf 50.

so if you're an american citizen thinking about joining isis, don't. you're not going to be captured because the color of your skin or your religion or your political views, you'll be captured because you've turned on your own country. in every war we've ever had american citizens have unfortunately sided with the emy, ghat is is trying to do as i speak? recruit people in our own backyard. how many people have bought the propaganda over the internet? the two guys in boston, one of them had permanent status. they bought intohis t crazy construct that you've got to kill everybody in the name of religion. the guy who ran over the folks in new york. all these people have one thing in common, they were radicalized by the enemy and became soldiers of the caliphate. here's what i'm trying to say, it is not my view of the constitution that i want you to look at. it's what the supreme court has said. a 1942 case, it involved capturing german saboteurs in long island. the last time i checked, long island new york is part of the united states. you had american ci