last time he spoke was in july and had nothing to do with the fighter. >> thank you, john huddy reporting live for us. >>> for more on the impact of the air strikes we go to florida congressman and fox news contributor lieutenant colonel allen west. >> good morning. how are you doing? >> i'm good. the president said the goal is to degrade and ultimately destroy isil. will the air strikes which began just after 8:30 last night be enough to accomplish that goal? >> well, it's a start, and when you look at what is happening now, this would be the phase one of an air campaign to degrade certain selected capabilities of isis, so i would look at their command and control being degraded, their logistical re-support capability and ammunition stocks being degraded as well as some of their training bases, because we know that they are recruiting young jihadi warriors from across the world so we want to take that away from them. so that's an initial start but we have to see this as whether it's going to be a dedicated air campaign or just the selected strikes. 20 to 25 stikrikes is a good stt but a

john huddy in jerusalem. heather: here's what we are working on the next hour of "happening now."n in the fight against ebola. a new high tech disinfection method. we will tell you about that. police many a suspect in the disappearance of hannah graham. police issue another arrest warrant for the same man they have been trying to track down for days. . jon: it is a simple question, have you finished your holiday shopping? heather: finnished. of course not. 91 days to christmas. jon: that's right. kmart stores in the d.c. area hope to catch you earlier than ever. they set up holiday display, setting off annual debate how early is too early? kmart even put out a christmas add after labor day promoting its layaway plan. some shoppers put on the scrooge faces. some were all for it. they got into the holiday spirit for a few minutes. i can't start playing christmas carols until after thanksgiving. heather: i need to find a red monster truck. it will take me a while to find that. maybe this is a good thing a little heads up. jon: your sons are not watching right now? heather: they're aw

>> john huddy live for us. thanks, john. jon: in this country lawmakers go back to work this week after a five-week vacation. there is a lot to do. not much time in which to do it. the house has 12 days in september and october before going back home to campaign. and then 15 days after the election. there is immigration to deal with, public transit, the export-import bank, funding for the government. not to mention isis to deal with. so what can we expect lawmakers to get done? ellison barber is a staff writer with the "washington free beacon." she has been checking with some of her sources on capitol hill. it has been called a do nothing congress. are they going to get something done before the election? >> not much. everyone i talk to on the house and senate the only thing they agree will likely get done is continuing resolution to fund the government. both republicans and democrats realize they need to do. to not do it and have another shut down would be bat for everyone. that is likely to get done. other thing you may se

john huddy, do we know if the drone was used to attack israeli troops or for reconnaissance purposes? >> arthel. a good question. syria's government says that the drone accidentally strayed into israeli airspace. nonetheless, israel shot it down with a patriot missile. but it further emphasizes all the problems that are happening not only along the israel-syria border but as the general and jon was talking about with isis in the northern and eastern part of syria as well. in terms of going back to the questions about the drone, all of this is happening along, as i mentioned, israel-syria border in the golan heights on the syria side. that is where intense fighting has been happening between al qaeda linked al nusra front and also syrian forces, the government's forces there. it has been intensifying over the last couple of days and over the weekend as we saw but it's very close, as i mentioned, all along the israeli border, arthel. that is where israeli troops remain posted and on high alert. >> along with the golan heights, another battlefront is raging in syria. you hinted about tha

arthel: john huddy, thanks a lot for that report. jon? n: new controversy over the mideast with a report that president obama became, quote, enraged, at the israeli government for its treatment of secretary of state john kerry during the gaza war. our next guest takes issue with that categorization and is puzzled why the president seems calm with other countries and crises, writing, quote, in the summer in which mr. obama became enraged with israel, islamic state terrorists seized mosul and massacred shiite soldiers in open pits. russian separatist it is shot down a civilian jetliner. hamas executed 18 collaborators in broad daylight. bashar al-assad's forces in syria came close to encircling aleppo with the aim of starving the city into submission. a brave american journalist had his throat slit on youtube by a british jihad it, russian troops openly invaded ukraine and chinese jets harassed u.s. surveillance planes over international waters. "wall street journal" foreign affairs columnist bret stevens joins us now. despite that entire li

jon: john huddy, live in your middle east bureau with more. john. >> reporter: well, jon, while the president as you just heard said this will not be a new iraq war, he did say airstrikes in iraq will continue calling on international coalition of u.s. allies to battle isis and this is now, jon, the arab league is pledging its help. now on sunday the league's 22 member-states issued a resolution to challenge isis by combating its military and financial resources and extremist ideology. it doesn't explicitly back american military action and airstrikes against isis but it really seems to reflect a new sense of urgency, challenging the militant group, and this as the u.n. human rights commissioner is calling on world leaders to make stopping isis a priority saying that the militants have shown an absolute disregard for human life. now let's get back to the airstrikes. as i mentioned, the u.s. continues to conduct airstrikes in iraq. in fact, over the weekend, airstrikes pounded isis locations near the hadifa dam, the country's second largest dam

john huddy with more fox team coverage from the middle east newsroom in jerusalem. hello, john. >> reporter: hello shannon. just about an hour ago by the way the secretary of state kerry spoke to the media and said the world can not watch evil spread and called on all countries in terms of isis to say enough. talk about the meeting with iraq's new prime minister, haider al-abadi. it lasted several hours and really two main points were discussed between secretary kerry and the prime minister. one, how the u.s. can increase its support of iraq's new government and then, two, how prime minister al-abadi can increase the role of sunnis within iraq's government. sunnis have felt marginalized in iraq particularly under former problem nuri al maliki's and that fueled anger with isis. to help resist isis and weaken the militants's group hold in northern iraq. this as shiite militia and kurdish forces continue to battle the islamic militants for control of various regions in northern iraq and syria as well where the fighting continues along with that in iraq. secretary of sta

jon: john huddy reporting live from jerusalem. thank you. >>> we'll talk a little bit more about the president's, frankly contradictory statements in an early morning news conference from estonia. he vows on the one hand to destroy isis but he also said he wants to make it, quote, a manageable problem, on the heels of last week's we don't have a strategy comment. even fellow democrats like dianne feinstein, chair of the senate intelligence committee, are saying the president may be too cautious. our next guest spent 20 years fighting terrorists with the cia and tweeted, the issue is not caution, it his lack of ability to make a decision at all. they call that weakness. charles fad, former cia operations officer joins us now. they call that weakness. who do you say is saying that? our enemies, isis? >> definitely isis. definitely our enemies. i think that's why you see these videos addressed specifically to the president, when they're doing these beheadings. they have made the judgment that he does not have what it takes to stand u

john huddy has the developments. >> reporter: as u.s.nato officials determine how exactly to dismantle isis both financi financially and militarilily, the battle continued in iraq and syria. the syrian army bombed isis targets in rocco the northeast city that has been an isis strong hold in syria the damage was widespread with buildings destroyed and several dozen people killed including at least 16 civilians. and in iraq today, curdish forces reportedly made gains pushing isis militants back from the mosul dam with help from u.s. air strikes. the us central command says its carried out more than 130 air strikes across iraq. but some curdish fighters say, they need more help. >> this curdish captain says they're waiting for more weapons from the us and without the united states' help quote we can't do anything ". >> on the diplomatic front president obama called an international coalition of nato and arab allies to help dismantle and destroy isis. >> you can't contain an organization that is running rough shot through that much territory

correspondent john huddy has the latest on the syrian civil war still raging three years and counting. >> reporter: the war raged on today. the syrian military released this video of the heavy fighting in east damascus. one explosion after another. the rebels also released video showing them firing back with rpgs and machine guns while ducking for cover. the fighting has intensified not only in east damascus but south in the golan heights. it's the region where the al qaeda-linked al nusra fronts have been battling government forces since last week right along the israeli border. the u.n. was also dragged into the fight. over the weekend the militants trapped several dozen filipino u.n. peacekeepers. they escaped with help from other u.n. troops. but the al nusra rebels continue to hold 45 fiji and u.n. peacekeepers. and because of the fighting along the boarder in the golan heights, the israeli military remains on high alert, concerned about taking fire as well. israeli military officials say if that happens, israel will fire back. ed? >> john huddy in jerusalem, thank you. >>> would

john huddy live now from our mideast bureau to break it all down. >> reporter: yeah, as u.s.d nato officials determine exactly how to dismantle isis both financially and militarily, the battle continued not only in iraq, but as you mentioned syria, as well. let's start there. syria's army pounded, they bombed isis locations in the city of rakka. this has been an isis stronghold in northeast syria. a main battle front. remember, isis controls a large swathe of northeastern and eastern syria and also northern iraq, as well. and in those air strikes, destroyed several buildings, home, widespread damage, several dozen people were killed including a reported 16 civilians. that is just the estimate. the number could be higher. we're waiting for more updates on that tonight. earlier today, in iraq meanwhile, on the ground, kurdish forces reportedly made gains pushing isis militants back away from the mosul dam in erbil. this has also been a main battlefront in iraq as the fight continues between kurdish and iraqi forces battling for control. a strategic military point. and also inje

>> john huddy live for us in jerusalem. talking ralph peters questioning the strategy of u.s. air strikes in syria. >> these awere not seriousman strikes. why did we go in at night? there was no air defense threat. couldn't have done it in broad daylight. if you wanted to kill paris you would have hit the headquarters and compounds at 10 or 11 in the morning when they were crowded with leaders staff officers et cetera. instead we hit empty buildings atl3 night. we knocked down antennas blew out windows. that is not the way to defeat terrorists who behead americans. we should have gone in heavy veep and killed -- let me give you the measure of success in air strikes against isis. it is not knocking out windows it is acres and acres of dead per terrorists that's success. >> a person of interest to suspected the kidnapping of jessie matthews is his name. he is charged with the disa i peer rance of uva student hannah graham. >> take a look at this. this is the wanted poster police are desperate to find this man and talk to him.

john huddy is watching the news from the middle east bureau.ould love to know about the other countries fighting alongside the united states. what can you tell us? >> you have jordan, saudi arabia, the uae and among those five countries involved in the strikes. the uae confirmed their air force was involved in the strikes. i think general scales who was on earlier made a good point about the arab coalition involved saying now the campaign has an arab face. but the question is now how long will these arab allies stay on and stay with the united states in this fight and will other arab countries join in and jump in? you have the airstrikes. intelligence gathering. jordan has been involved in that. and you have the training of the syrian rebels, the free syrian army and those fighting isis. saudi arabia has been training syria rebels that have been battling the government for several years. that has been happening for years. of course, one country that has been absent has been turkey. and this is a big deal because turkey number one has a very str

>> john huddy, thank you so much. kelly?r more on this matter, general jack keane is a former vice chief of staff and chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news military analyst. he joins us now. general, we've been following the developments now. the key word from the president as we're hearing it is "degrade and destroy isis." is he taking the right approach in getting the international coalition developed to do just that? >> absolutely. finally we've got some movement. unekwif cli we have a goal, degrade and destroy isis. what we've been dealing with in the last ten days is over in terms of the equivocation we've heard. number two, we are moving towards a coalition. he has nine nato members and australia, ten partners to include the united states now in a coalition. they'll add to that hopefully a number of countries from the middle east, certainly they have a stake in it, saudi arabia, jordan, hopefully kuwait, egypt, others will come and participate in that. i think the other thaing we're moving towar

john huddy live in jerusalem with the very latest. last night u.s. isis targets inside syria. simultaneously. now we know unrelated probably, the israelis shot down a syrian jet. >> we thank john for joining us this morning here. our live team coverage continues in just a moment. coming up, all eyes are on bin laden's son-in-law at this hour. why he's on american soil and what is expected to happen to him. >> and you just heard from the pentagon's top guy saying we're at war with isis. the same way we're at war with al-qaeda. so what does that mean? we've assembled a panel of great military minds to react to that and to last night's bombing escapade. this is "fox & friends". dñ >>> back now with a fox news alert on this tuesday morning. overnight the united states carrying out air strikes against isis militants inside syria. this marks a major expansion in the war against the brutal terror group isis or isil. the united states and our allies destroying or damaging 14 isis targets with a blistering aerial barrage of more than 140 tomahawk missiles. re

with a lot of questions about that, john huddy has more. >> reporter: turkey's prime minister said that his country used its quote, unquote, own methods and a covert operation to secure the turkey consulate workers release, though he would not elaborate about what kind of operation and methods were used. the hostages reunited with their families in the tushish capitol earlier today. they had been held since june 11 when isis militants overran turkey's consulate in mosul. whether their release changes turkey's role in the fight against isis remains unclear. the country has helped with humanitarian aid, allowing refugees fleeing isis and including a flood of 45,000 syrian kurds during the past 24 hours. turkish officials say the borders while open to refugees are being secured to keep isis militants out and possible fighters from leaving. but there have been reports isis is recruiting militants from inside the country. isis meanwhile continues to hold a bridge aid worker hostage, but today in an interesting twist, a jihadi ideologue with al-qaeda ties called for the man's release, saying

>> john huddy live for us in jerusalem. thanks much. president obama looking to build coalition to deal with isis. and while he hasn't outlined clear strategies as we've been telling you, he did give three reasons why he believes action needs to be taken. number one, to prevent the genocide of christians and religious minorities. two, to defend american interests in the region and, three, to disrupt isis before it attacks americans in the region or more importantly here on u.s. soil. joining me now, retired general jack keen. great to see you, general. i know that you have warned that this could be a 50-year struggle that will dwarf the ideological battle with communism. >> the radical islamist threat is a significant ideology that challenges everything that we believe in in democracy and what free people around the world believe in. we beat fascism with brute force and beat communism with better ideas, democracy and capitalism. to beat and defeat the global radical islamic threat, you actually have to use brute force and better ideas a

john huddy has the very latest on this surprising development from our middle east bureau. >> reporterwell, the covert operation was mentioned by the turkey's prime minister and he also said that his country used its quote/unquote own methods to secure the release of the turkish consulate workers. he didn't really elaborate about what kind of operation and methods were used. nonetheless, take a look. earlier today the hostages were reunited with their families in the turkish capital of ankara. they had been held since june 11th in the iraqi city of mosul. whether their release changes turkey's role in the fight against isis remains unclear. it's a big question and the country has helped with humanitarian aid. we know that, allowing refugees fleeing isis into turkey including a flood of 45 -- more than 45,000 now syrian kurds during the past 24 hours. now, turkish officials say the borders while open for the refugees are being secured to keep isis militants out and possible fighters from leaving the country. but there have been reports that isis is recruiting militants from within turke

john huddy is live in our middle east bureau. this marks a new area of operations for the united states, doesn't it? >> it does. you have to look at the geography. the haditha dam is in western iraq. it's all the anbar province. that rays the question about whether the u.s. will launch airstrikes in syria. so far the up s. carried out 140 airstrikes in across since early august including those at the haditha dam. we are getting word that 4 isis humvees were destroyed as well as a command center as well. bill: baghdad, the capital city down here. two main rivers that go back through time. the tigress to the east and the euphrates to the west. two major dams to be focused on. the mosul gallon dam, and this is where the airstrikes were carried out and the airstrikes on behalf of the u.s. were able to protect water line and infrastructure for iraq. now the focus has been the had itha dam. it's five files wide. up s. officials will tell you that's cital infrastructure. it falls into isis hand that could be devastating. two crystal poi

john huddy in jerusalem. bill: here is syria in the map behind us. we shaded a number of different colors. there are didn't factions at play. in the south near the capital city of damascus. all the dark green is operated and controlled by assad and the government forces. the lighter shade of green are sunni faters who opposed --' sunni fighters who opposed assad. and there are groups al-nusra and the khorasan. the yellow group including isis that includes syria and iraq. 22airstrikes in total. 14 hit the town of raqqa. the temporary capital for isis. another 8 went after aleppo, that's where the group khorasan is located. that's where the u.s. believes they were plotting against targets here at home. we have ambassador bolton. overnight 22 strikes carried out. i don't know if it's the end or the beginning. what do you think what we have done right now? >> i think the strikes are very late. i think isis has had a long time to prepare and defend against airstrikes like this. is this a one-off. or will it be sustained. i have a feeling it had more to do