jamie mcintire, al jazeera, pentagon. >>> palestinian man shot and killed after he tried to stab a soldier. this happened as ban ki-moon met with mahmoud abbas on the west bank. >>> tomorrow, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will discuss the rising violence with secretary of state john kerry in berlin. he is also planning to meet with bawfs iabbas in coming days. >>> netanyahu made comments during a speech this jerusalem yesterday. this is how he recounted a 1941 meeting between adolph hitler and the grand mufti hussein you of palestine he says what circulate i do with them, he said burn them. >> accused the prime minister of giving wrong impression of hitler and the holocaust. he said he wasn't absolving hitler of the holocaust, but he said that palestinians were talking about the violence against jews even before the jewish state was formed. (f) investigators don't know what led to this incident but credit tips from the public for the break in the case. >> we have at least two search warrants we need to serve, to take from person of interest to suspect. we are still going to ask

. >> al jazeera's jamie mcintire explains the unwitnes once-and-e american mission in afghanistan. >>dent's surprising phase, u.s. trained afghan army which needed u.s. and nato help to retake the key northern city. but the penningto pentagon insiz was not a tipping point. months in the making, following excessive consultations with the afghan government, nato allies and u.s. commanders. >> my approach is to assess the situation ton ground, figure out what's working, what's not working and make adjustments when necessary. >> 9800 u.s. troops in afghanistan through the end of 2016 instead of slowly withdrawing them over the course of the next year. his old plan would have left a small embassy force in the capital. then it's keeping 5500 near bagram, jalalabadand kunduz until at least 2016. the very narrow u.s. mission is not changing. u.s. troops will only advise and assistage forces and go after taliban remnants. >> the combat mission has ended and our mission now, on a day-to-day basis is train, advise and assist and counterterrorism and only to undertake other kinds of operations ei

antonio. >> jamie mcintire, at the white house. >>> eastern saudi arabia, a new branch of i.s.i.l. is reportedly claiming responsibility for killing, one woman was among the dead another nine were injured. the people who had gathered were all members of the shia muslim minority. saudis are reporting the man who attacked was wearing an explosives belt but was killed before he could detonate them. >>> u.s. justice department says 20-year-old ardit farisi is a known hacker. i arrived to study computehe trr forensics an. >>> as jennifer glasse reports many afghanistan say it's time for all foreign troops to go home. >> reporter: funeral prayers in kunduz for a man wounded in taliban fighting but killed in the doctors without borders hospital. president obama's decision is unwelcome. >> we don't need foreign force he to protect us, we demand that the united states and other foreign countries stop top supportinsupporting taliban fig. >> afghan forces needed u.s. air and ground support to battle. >> instead of leaving thousands of forces here the americans should support an equip our own

pentagon special correspondent jamie mcintire has more. >> the president says he will not put boots on the ground in syria but today the white house announced that a small number of u.s. troops will be planting their boots on syrian soil, just for now at least in a combat mission. unlike last week's joint u.s. kurdish raid on an i.s.i.l. prison in iraq, the pentagon says the number of troops being sent to northern syria will not be going on with local forces on raids or engaging in offensive combat. a senior defense department official briefing the pentagon on policy said flatly those forces will be doing an advise and assist mission, they won't be doing any joint missions. the white house called it an intensification of the current strategy. >> the fact is our strategy in syria has not changed. the core idea is to build up the capacity of local forces to take the fight to i.s.i.l. to their own country. >> a strict advise and assist role, helping syrian local forces with planning and logistics and u.s. forces won't do joint raids call in air strikes or even establish their own headquar

jamie mcintire. al jazeera, the pentagon. >> secretary of state john kerry will meet with a series of world leaders in the mid east this weekend to try to bring an end to the three weeks of violence between israelis and palestinians. there was a pause in the clashes today in jerusalem. the israeli government lifted age restrictions from muslim workers at the al-aqsa mosque. those restrictions have been a major source of tension between two sides. 30,000 muslims prayed at the holy site today. but it was a different scene in many parts of the occupied west bank where activists called for a day of rage. sporadic clashes between demonstrators and the israeli army also broke out across the region. >>> democrats in congress say they've had enough of the benghazi investigation. what they're telling house speaker john boehner and where hillary clinton's campaign stands in the wake of yesterday's player on this hearing. and we are keeping watch on the situation in mexico. hundreds ever thousands of people cou

jamie mcintire reports. >> russia and the united states are not just at odds in the skies over syria but also are engaged had a raging milk relations battle, each offering a vastly different narrative for what's happening on the ground. drone video from a russian state tv cameraman went viral this week the video with an added sound track shows a syrian government attack. aerial view of the ex tent of the devastation near the syrian capital after four years of war. misery which the pentagon now accuses russian air power of simply adding to. >> the russians have been indiscriminate, they have been reckless in syria, they seem to have no difficulty dropping cluster munition around where civilians may be. they do not appear to be based on their actions they do not appear to be interested in defeating i.s.i.l. they appear to be interested in preserving the assad regime. >> reporter: the white house says syrian president bashar al-assad's red carpet welcome in moscow ends the fiction that russian intervention is about anything other than keeping assad in power. the pentagon continues to in

antonio. >> jamie mcintire reporting from the pentagon. leaders from more than adozen eu countries have agreed with a 17 point plan to deal with the refugee crisis. meeting in brussels over the weekend they agreed to find provision for 17,000 refugees and sent officers to slovenia, to help with the overflow. nearly 17,000 migrants have already arrived in the eu over the year. another of those 17 points, is to increase the number of guards along the borders. they will help with registering and fingerprinting those new arrivals. this incredible view from the sky paints a dramatic picture of the refugee crisis. drone footage illustrates the nonstop flow of refugees into slovenia. some 75,000 have walked there, forced to go to slovenia on foot after hungary blocked its borders to croatia. greece and the eu have come to temps on an agreement to temporarily shelter thousands of refugees. more than $6 million of emergency aid for greece to house the refugees for the next four months. more than half a million have traveled through tbrees this grs

jamie mcintire is there. good evening jamie. >> perhaps more than a thousand have moved into central and northern syria over the past two weeks and they appear to be linking up with hezbollah fighters in what has all the earmarks of an offensive to take back some areas of syria that are currently head by syrian antigovernment rebels. the center of the issue seems to be aleppo and the province around it, various areas, some held by the syrian government forces some busy the antigovernment opposition, some held by i.s.i.l. in that area. the pentagon has down played the overall numbers saying it's not as high as 1500 in some places but doesn't deny the iranians are there or which side they're on. as you mentioned the pictures have surfaced on social media of kasam sulimani the kuds commander, seeking to a pro-regime forces, a force of bashar al-assad, more evidence that these russian air strikes along with the iranian troop presence in the ground is aimed at the u.s. backed opposition much more than i.s.i.l. some

jamie mcintire has the story. >> ash carter made no apologies, the u.s. combat role in iraq supposedly ended four years ago. >> whether we find opportunities to do things that will effectively prosecute the campaign, we're going to do that. this is an example of a case where we could do something, we alone had the capability to do that i'm absolutely prepared to do that. >> the american special operations forces were supposed to simply helicopter the peshmerga troops to a i.s.i.l. run compound flee near kirkuk ad rescue i.s.i.l.'s captives. >> the vicinity of the affected area where we believed the hostages were and the kurdish peshmerga fought their way up to the wall that was around this compound. the american special forces personnel who were advising and assisting, the their role was to stay back by the helicopter and wait for operation to finish. >> secretary carter said when master sergeant joshua wheeler and his special forces saw the peshmerga were pinned down unable to advance they sprang to action. >> he ran to the sound of the guns and stood up

jamie mcintire reports. >> good afternoon. >> reporter: defense secretary ash carter made no apologizes for putting u.s. operations even throw u.s. combat role in iraq supposedly ended four years ago. >> when we find opportunities to do things had a will effectively prosecute the campaign, we're going to do that. and this is an example of a case where we could do something, we alone had the capability to do that and i am absolutely prepared to do that. >> the american special forces were simply to helicopter the peshmerga troops to an i.s.i.l. run compound west of kirkuk and get them out after the peshmerga did the fighting and rescue the captives. >> we believed the hostages were there and the kurdish peshmerga fought their way up to the wall that was around this compound. the american special forces personnel who with were advising and assisting they were always to stay back by the helicopters and wait for operation to finish. >> but secretary carter says when master sergeant joshua wheeler and his fellow delta force commandoos saw the peshmerga were unable to advance, they ran in to

jamie mcintire is at the pentagon. many jamie. >> perhaps 1500 iranian fighters have moved into northern and north central syria, all earmarks of counteroffensive to retake syria, with syrian rebels, with the backing of russian air power. focusing on aleppo and the problems around the city. the area near the turkish border. the area is divided between the turkish government and some of the syrian rebel forces as well as siel forces a i.s.i.l. force. some people say it's up to 1500, pentagon officials say it's more in the hundreds. they're not disputing what sides they're on. pictures on social media have emerged showing kasam sulimani talking to a pro regime rally in latakia, syria. the white house says it is more evidence that the russians and iranians are admonish fm interested imore interested infd coalition. >> it's an indication of how isolated russia is as they carry out this unilateral action. the only people that are coordinating with them now is the fledgling assad government such as it is and the iranians who

. >>> high on the agenda, nuclear concerns, jamie mcintire has the story. >> antonio, north korea haseen doing a lot of saber-rattling but tensions have eased a bit recently and today president obama indicated he's willing to negotiate with pyongyang but only if it's serious about giving up its nuclear weapons. the meeting between south korean park and president obama and his national security team comes as north korea has been issuing increasingly aggressive statements and amid signs pyongyang may be planning a test launch the two presidents jointly expressed deep concern about the north's intentions. >> today president park and i are reaffirming that our nation is will never accept north korea as a nuclear weapons state. >> south korea's president raised eyebrows last month when she tenanted an event in beijing, but president park said her intention was to win chinese cooperation in pressuring north korea to give up its nuclear ambitions. >> so that was my message that i had for the leaders that i met with in beijing. they agree with me in terms of my remarks about north korea's nuc

jamie mcintire is at the pentagon. jamie. >> on numerous occasions president obama said he would not put u.s. boots on the ground in syria but today the white house announced that yes, some will be planting their boots on the ground at least so far not iin a combats mission. >> the pentagon says the small number of u.s. special operations troops be sent to northern syria will not be going along with local forces in raids or engaging in offensive combat. a senior defense department official briefing on background said those forces will be doing strictly an advise and assist operation, not joint operations. the white house called it no intensification of the strategy. >> the fact is our strategy in syria hasn't claingd. the corchanged. the core is to build up the capacity of local forces to take the fight to i.s.i.l. in their own country. >> the pentagon is a straight up no kidding advise and assist role, limited to helping moderate syrian forces with planning and logistics, will not call in raids or statistics or establi

national security correspondent jamie mcintire is at the pentagon. jamie?> it's a bit of a mixed message on the pentagon. on the one hand, it says the u.s. military needs to do more to defeat isil on the ground. on the other hand, it says, u.s. troops won't be doing the heavy lifting when it comes to direct combat. >> the new u.s. strategy was on display in iraq last week as seen from the helmet camera of a kurdish fighter. for the first type, u.s. commando did were paired with battle-tested local forces, and while the plan was for the americans to hang back, they were almost immediately drawn in to a fierce fire fight that killed one u.s. sold, master sergeant joshwa wheeler. the pentagon insists the u.s. troops were still advising and assisting and that the new strategy is not a slippery slope to a ground role, something last year president obama specifically promised wouldn't happen. >> i think we always have to guard against mission creep. what i have said in the past, let me repeat, american combat troops are not going to be fighting in iraq again. >>

jamie mcintire has more from the pentagon. >> john, the united states and russia are not just at odds in the skies over syria, they are also engaged in a raging public relations battle, each offering diverse representations what's happening on the ground. >> a video from state cameras went viral this week, jabar, a northeastern suburb of damascus. extent of the devastation near the syrian capital after four years of war. misery which the pentagon now accuses russian air power of simply adding to. >> the russians have been indiscriminate, they have been reckless in syria, they seem to have no difficulty dropping cluster munitions, around where civilians may be. they do not appear to be based on their actions, they do not appear to be interested in defeating i.s.i.l, they appear to be interested in preserving the assad regime. >> the white house says syrian president bashar al-assad red car pet welcome in moscow ends the fiction that russian intervention is anything about other than keeping assad in power. the pengt pentagon insists russs lying exaggerating the number and effectiveness

. >> north korea's agenda was high, national security correspondent jamie mcintire has more from the white house. >> john, north korea has been doing a lot of nuclear saber rattling recently, threatening both the united states and south korea with its nuclear arsenal. today tensions have lowered a bit. president obama said he's willing to negotiate with pyongyang but only if it's serious about giving up its nuclear weapons. >> the meeting with park geun-hye and president obama, amid signs pyongyang may be planning a space launch or nuclear test explosion in defiance of u.n. security council resolutions. the two presidents jointly expressed deep concern about the north's intentions. >> today president park and i are reaffirming that we will never accept north korea as a nuclear weapons state. >> south korean president raised eyebrows last month when she attended the nuclea military celebration in beijing. >> that was the message for leaders that i met in beijing and they agree with me in terms of my remarks about north korea's nuclear problems and we all agree we needed to make effort

national security correspondent jamie mcintire is in the pentagon. the expansion of the u.s. forces into syria geographically doesn't seem like such a big deal. how significant is the actual policy change? >> well, david, on numerous occasions, president obama has said over the past few years that the u.s. would not put boots on the ground in syria but today, the white house announced that some combat troops will indeed be planting their boots on syrian soil, just not in a combat mission, at least not for now. >> unlike last week's joint u.s. kurdish raid on an isil prison in iraq, the pentagon says the small number of u.s. special operations troops being sent to northern syria will not be going along with local forces on raids or engaging in offensive combat. a senior defense department official briefing reporters at the pentagon on background said flatly, those forces will be doing a strictly advise and assist mission, not going out and doing joint operations. the white house called it any intensefication of the kurd strategy. >> the fact is, our strategy in syria hasn't ch