. >> these friends died in sinjar. i don't have photographs of all of them. our fight against i.s.i.l. is strong. not everyone gets to die with dignity. i'm glad our friends are able to. it's an honor. >> jacko hopes the u.s. and others will come to accept them as a true ally against i.s.i.l. before it's too late. >> translator: if the americans joined us in the fight, we would be at the front lines even if we were just four fighters. and if the peshmerga were to join us it would be even better. that would show that the kurds are united. we hope they will come too. >> until then, he and his band of fighters struggle on alone even in the face of a mounting death toll. >> reporter: that report came to us from german journalist carston stormer. josh, maybe you can give us some better perspective on this. you know it's really hard to understand because the united states has labeled the pkk terrorists. are they? >> well, it depends on who you ask, i guess. they're not terrorists like al qaeda is terrorists or anyone would t

along the mosul dam and mount sinjar and it's in its salt of the krg. and in syria where they told achieve a media spectacle before the entire world they were defeated in tikrit when mine minister abadi asked for help in the deciding moment in the assault and clearance that have city. the coalition delivered and the iraqi sawyer at this forces were able to clear that population center. today daesh has lost 25 fierce of the populated territory it once held in iraq. the coalition has played a vital role in helping local forces make these gains, 15 partners are helping to built the iraqi security force's capacities. and six partners are contributing to the coalition's advise and assist mission. building the capacity of a rack i security forces will take time. and it is only recently that our four building partner capacity training sites became fully operational. and with each passing week, these camps are producing more and more of the iraqi security forces necessary to recover the territorial integrity of the country. daesh is operations in ramadi also hi

a yazidi, in revenge attack in sinjar nineva province. around the same time shia militia who had already been targeted by i.s.i.l carried out another raid in a village in dyalla province. the two incidents headlight on a growing sectarian divide in iraq. in some cases the militias are more powerful than the iraqi army. she joined us from london. i asked her how civilians are coping with the groups. >> the civilian population has been targeted massively first and foremost by i.s.i.s. groups but also by other actors. shia militias, government forces and it should be emphasized that the shia militias are extremely powerful, way more so than government forces. and other actors are also coming on the scene as having been subjected themselves to abuses, and then horrible, horrible violations by i.s.i.s one thing to take revenge. so iraq has really gone back to a very dark place. >> and we do know that i.s.i.l. has somewhat argued genocidal tendencies are ethnic cleansing with the shia publishes yas with the yazidi militias. are they conducting

are sinjar amir is a professor ever turkish relations. >> turkey is not a immediately power, not a world power. turkey cannot take the behavior of a world party. you cannot try to change situation in one country. >> last year to become prime minister he reject accusations that the party relations are at the heart of his proposed government. >> values like democracy values like supporting human dignity. >> reporter: turkey's foreign policies have not only helped dweend define their acts, but its bidhe saysthe criticism unwarranted. >> many actors they blame turkey and turkish leadership for changing its foreign policy orientation but this is not the case. when we look at the regional environment in which turkey's located, we see that the other side of the relationship, other actors were changed dramatically. >> there's no doubt that turkey's world presence has grown. far beyond its borders. assemble what else do you see jamal as the other issues at play here? >> one of the major issues is the economy, for example jane, over the last decade, turkey has boomed, average income of each turk h

sinjar amir is a professor of turkey relations. >> turkey is not a medium power not a world power. turkey cannot take the behavior of a world power. you cannot take party for one side and try to change the situation in one country. >> reporter: aimmediate dir beidoku. >> based on certain venues, values like democracy. values like supporting human dig it this. >> reporter: turkey's foreign policies have not only helped define the ak party answer rule, but in world policies, it has won turkey a lot of support but also a great deal of criticism. >> says that the criticism is unwarranted. >> many actors they blame turkey and turkish leadership for changing its foreign policy orientation but this is not the case. when we look at the regional environment in which turkey is located, we see that the other sides of the relationship, other actors were changed dramatically. >> there's no doubt that turkey's role on the world stage has grown since it came to power. extends far beyond its borders. jamalel shael. al jazeera ankara. >> giving up the bullet for the ballot. we meet the vigilantes t

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we are surrounding mosul from three places, the corners of sinjar and the north in mosul and also inhe east and south of the east of mosul by the person forces which has long front and because of the sensitivity mostly the biggest -- about 2 million people--baghdad and the coalition forces -- for the operation, how to deliver mosul from isis. >> your city has had to absorb about half a million displaced people. how are you dealing with that? with displaced people, kurdistan received about 1.8 million and also we have about 300,000 and these people after the operation even what's happening in ramadi, the numbers has increased as the people have started to leave their places and they come to kurdistan. it's a very heavy pressure on the government and kurdistani infrastructures, because this number of people are sharing all the services with the local people with the electricity with the water the education health sector, everything will be sharing by between the local people. they are supporting us, providing all the -- big numbers to live in security and stay in kurdistan. until now t

watched isis on the march, taking town after town, sinjar, mosul, and ramadi.air and ground campaign really born from the horror of the killings of american journalists james foal oh and steven sotloff -- foley and steven on saturday love, and the mass atrocities isis inflicts on thousands across syria and iraq. but the pentagon immediately warned air strikes would never be enough. >> there's no air power alone solution to isil either in iraq or syria. >> reporter: the tactics to carry out the strategy and win, build a coalition, conduct air strike, and train local forces on the ground to do the fighting. from the beginning, most of the effort was in iraq. the u.s. believing it could work with the iraqi government. but when isis took over ramadi, that stunning statement from defense secretary ash carter. >> the iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. they were not outnumbered, in fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force. we can give them training, equipment, we obviously can't give them the will to fight. the people who live in that territory, partic

. >> israeli officials say -- [ gunfire ] >> you can see the people below trapped on sinjar mountain.on. >> i'm outside this pediatric hospital. just take a look inside. >> some of these people have been waiting outside now for more than three days. >> i've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in mississippi. >> as far as we can see, under blue sky, it's totally leveled. >> the drama. >> princess diana has died. >> george zimmerman not charged with anything in this case. >> the terror. >> about a third of the building has been blown away. >> there has been a second explosion. >> what normally would be the world trade center is no more. >> two possible suspects in the boston bombing. >> and triumph. >> the rescuers are making progress literally by inches. >> the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. >> usa! usa! >> it's so rare to have a cover story with a happy ending. >> making news -- >> director helmand, can you talk to us please? >> and breaking news. >> i can't move. i'm not going to resist a police officer. >> what is going on in ferguson m

and as isis made further advances remember the, the siege of mount sinjar, the people trapped there. and the battle for mosul dam, it is ticking up. fall of ramadi here drop from 3,050 today. another 450 large low trainers joining in. we are nowhere near the levels of 150,000 troops of several years ago. but of casually quietly, gradually, creeping up higher and higher in just the last 12 months. >> clearly what the president said "america's war in iraq will be over in 2011." that has not occurred. joining us congressman ryan zinke, iraq war veteran, former navy seal commander, a member of the seal team 6 as well serves now on the house armed services committee. congressman. thank you for coming in. >> great to be here. >> you served in iraq falluja, ramadi you know the territory, is this from your perspective mission creep? >> it is a free fall. it won't make a difference putting more troops in. unless we change the policy. air operations is not effective, will not be effective. we don't have intelligence on the ground. we are using facebook in some cases to target. what's the objec

nerve-racking wallet emptying endeavor punctuated by encounters of the effluvia that assault the senses and sinjarmemory. and yet it's totally worth it. parenthood is all about very long days and sadly very short years. still i should say i knew at least some of the men on this panel when they were young while in the notion that you would have entrusted any of them with a small portable human being would have struck you as just as insane. fortunately with the exception of rob howard token childless bachelor sort of the house goi on the fatherhood panel i have it on good authority that they all married up. i want to thank caroline kitchens who help with the sun as well as the event staff at aei. they make me look good with little to no effort from me which is i hope something i will one day be able to say about my daughter. i will close by simply noting that this is not going to be a debate about the finer points of public policies or relates to fatherhood rather freewheeling conversation hosted by heroic editor jonathan last, but not least. that would be rob long our childless moderator. with that

sinjar -- >> every place is different. n how and how you intervene is going to depend on the roekzlocation. in the senate, they had many liberians in rhode island. we have one of the largest liberian populations -- west africa in rhode island. it's very interesting what's happening in liberia. the civil war. and to -- threw a little intervention mostly by the understanding i'd say coming into liberia, they were able to stop the long, brutal horrendous war in liberia. it depends on the location, how we're going intervene. right now after loss of credibility, no weapons of mass destruction in iraq, i think it's difficult for the united states to intervene because of that tremendous loss of credibility that we have in the region. sir? >> over the past couple of months, american allies in the middle east such as saudi arabia and israel have expressed hesitation, apprehension even hostility toward american policies in the region. with this idea of waging peace, what role do you see american allies not just in the middle east bu