ponsa. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon everybody. before we get started here i would like to introduce the president of special envoy to our global counter isil quotient and he's prepared materials to discuss the process we are seeing on the ground against iphone and iraq and syria and he is a time afterwards to take a handful of questions from all of you. so we will do that before we go back to our regularly-scheduled program. i will turn it over to you. >> i thought it would take 10 minutes to put you in a picture of what we are seeing day-to-day in this very difficult extraordinary complex fight against isil. i can't overstate the complexity of this and yet despite that we now have some real traction against this very serious enemy. we define the isis is a global organization and that's why we built a global coalition to fight it. it is to find the corps in iraq and the phony caliphate. there are global networks are up again the networks for an fighter networks by nancy networks although we have gotten a handle on those and affili