child fighters for isis. abc news was given rare access at the hora youth detention and rehabilitation centers in northeast syria where in this classroom every seat is filled. they learn here, they sleep here in bunkbeds where they do their homework. in the courtyard they play sports. they're trying to build a new and safe community for these children. each of these children has been given a task. some here in the kitchen. the workers here hope that this new life, this new normalcy will help pull the children away from the isis ideology. brushing their hair, cleaning up before their meal. but many of the children still bear the scars of war. amjan told the staff at the detention center his arms and his face were burned in air strikes more than a year ago. he says he worked under isis, he did policing, he was a guard, and he is honest about who he wants to see again. he says, "i want to come back to my life and stay with my family." and that's part of the fear, say workers here, is that these children will one

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. >> isis is a death cult. it's a death cult. >> we are the victorious group. >> and now the caliphate is destroyed. their leader has sworn to fight on in a global jihad, promising to bring the fight to the west. so is the islamic state really dead? join me as i trace the rise and fall of isis. ♪ >>> i've covered isis from the beginning, as the militant army rolled through much of iraq and syria, conquering a vast territory and establishing its caliphate. but by the spring of 2019, the tables had turned. isis was losing. i came back to witness the end. only a few thousand of the most hard-core militants were left. they were surrounded in a little syrian town called baguz. this man is a field commander in a force made up predominantly ethnic kurds. he took me to the front lines. they don't look like they're ready to surrender. he's he's saying the once in here are prepared to die. they had a war plan, a partnership. the u.s. military dropped bombs from above while kurdish fighters backed isis into this squalid

the hunt for isis fighters. we take you deep inside iraq tonight, after the president celebrated the defeat of isis, their territory taken back -- where are they now? tonight, we're with u.s. forces as they hunt for isis in the caves, the mountains, the villages of iraq. and we take you inside the refugee camp in syria where isis fighters are living. the children dancing around the isis flag. >>> here at home tonight, the major fire at an historic synagogue. was it arson? what thoughts just revealed. >>> the american city, a portion of it on lockdown for hours. the suspicious van loaded with 1,000 gallons of gasoline. >>> the tesla driver appearing to be asleep at the wheel at 60 miles an hour on the highway. >>> and the famous face and the big return tonight. and not a moment too soon. >>> good evening and it's great to start another week with all of you at home. and we do begin tonight with that daring rescue of four sailors trapped inside a massive cargo ship that went aground off the u.s. coast. the ship top

the hunt for isis fighters. we take you deep inside iraq tonight, after the president celebrated the d their territory taken back -- where are they now? tonight, we're with u.s. forces as they hunt for isis in the caves, the mountains, the villages of iraq. and we take you inside the refugee camp in syria where isis fighters are living. the children dancing around the isis flag. >>> here at home tonight, the major fire at an historic synagogue. was it arson? what authorities just revealed. >>> the american city, a portion of it on lockdown for hours. the mystery van loaded with fuel and a suspicious device. >>> the tesla driver appearing to be asleep at the wheel at 60 miles an hour on the highway. >>> and the famous face and the big return tonight. and not a moment too soon. >>> good evening and it's great to start another week with all of you at home. and we do begin tonight with that daring rescue of four sailors trapped inside a massive cargo ship that went aground off the u.s. coast. the ship toppling onto

is that simple isis as a state in the unique threat that isis presented by its ability to project power into paris khan berlin and other places 7 attacks in turkey. and that isis has disappeared and thus some of the very specific concerns we had particularly about the stability of iraq and the region as a whole we now have isis as a terrorism. not all that different from al qaeda that is something that we worry about something that we focus on something that we're working on which is why we're keeping troops on which is why the coalition including some i can tell you exactly how many but it's in the many thousands of some thousands of u.s. troops still in iraq to defy. in iraq and syria so it isn't that we thought the problem is gone away the problem just changed dramatically because we achieved a victory over isis as a political force trump was right in saying that what's been particularly damaging for us syria lies with the timing of this with the drool the report from the inspector general said the. duction has decreased the support available to syrian forces at a time when they need

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are they brides of isis spouses of isis fighters? how do we assess them? i think that is at the crux of challenge of government and figuring out how dangerous they are and what to do with them. the response has been on event. european countries have been quite reluctant to take women and children back, the u.k. in particular, there is the case of the woman who was one of the three girls who became international story because her citizenship was stripped. russia has taken some women back in the u.s. i think from an american perspective taking these women back at monitoring and knowing where they are is safer from simply security perspective than allowing them to potentially go free in the desert. >> you have been to the camp and talk to the women. are they remorseful? are they regretful? or are they defiant? >> there is both. certainly these are the women who came out of the final kind of stronghold devices. a lot were for rent believers. women who came out and earns the moments when raqqa fell in 2017 i think there those who wanted to get out earlier tried

isis is not defeated. the u.s.-led military effort successfully pushed isis out of the territory it held, but the group has transitioned to an insurgency. meanwhile, al qaeda is still active in syria. >> four, the isis detainee population is a few day away from the next caliphate are resource, trained and securing in pop lalgz. >> iranian boots are not leaving syria despite u.s. inkie stinks and the economic and social fabric for long-term influence. six, russia has exploited its intervention on behalf of a sacked to contest to u.s. leadership. serve. u.s.-turkey ties are immensely strained and the forces is a leading factor and a turkish military incursion into northern syria will provide isis the opportunity to reconstitute. join u.s.-turkey military patrols in a mutually agreed upon area and prevent the 16a ario for the time being. eight, the scale and scope of human suffering over the course of this conflict have set a depraved new standard for the 21st century. the parties responsible, assad, iran and russia h

i've left isis behind. it was a mistake. i learned from it. but the center barely reaches a fraction of the children indoctrinated. there just aren't enough resources. if the situation stays like this and nations don't help, isis will come back, this administrator tells us. we hear about it. the sleeper cells. they take advantage of the children trying to recruit them. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: and the children are so vulnerable, they know nothing but conflict, destruction and grief. some have no parents like this little boy. >> he's jut visiting his friends here and says that his mom was killed, his dad detained and it's just him and his siblings, oldest of which is 16. >> reporter: children pay the price of their parents and in turn are preyed upon. there is a shocking lack of international involvement here. the place is forgotten. the legacy of yesterday's war, and that makes it uniquely dangerous, because if allowed to fester, this sprawling camp contains the seeds of the next war and isis' revenge generation. >> arwa d

the isis five being -- the isis flag raised in the camp that happens here in the part of the camp for syrians. it is a reaction to the psychological pressure on us one woman said. they should know that more can be done than the raising of a flag. >> reporter: and more has been done. foreign women here are no longer allowed to leave their an ex and go to the market after two incidents when kurdish guards were stabbed. the more radicalized women threaten and terrorize those less devoted to isis. one woman said her tent was burnt down and another that she is so afraid of being stabbed she barely sleeps at night. outside of the camp we get access to a prison. a surreal scene. former isis fighters painting and crafting paper moshay models. this man said isis held his family hostage to coerce him to join. isis gave me the bombs and then shows me on what's up how to plant them. he's serving 20 years, the maximum sentence. in the crowded cell, some men say they never supported isis. >> my cousin turned us in. he said i was isis but he is an isis spy. >> reporter: others accept their fate. >>

they say isis hardliners have threatened to burn their tents down at night. >> isis is like an idol for them. >> reporter: they still worship isis? >> yeah, too much. >> reporter: these women don't want to go home. they came here to live under islamic law. >> we are in favor in what allah sent upon us. if he says an adulterer should be stoned, then it's said and i have to accept it. that's it. >> reorter: and what about people who are gay, how should they be treated? >> yeah, they get chucked off a building. >> reporter: thrown off a building? >> yeah. >> reporter: isis may have been defeated on the battlefield, but it still commands the hearts and minds of its followers. holly williams, cbs news, al hol, in syria. >> that is incredible reporting. there is still much more ahead right here. delta passengers panic when their jet suddenly drops nearly 30,000 feet. what caused it? >>> later, yet another death linked to vap ♪ here i go again on my own ♪ goin' down the only road i've ever known ♪ ♪ like a drifter i was-- ♪ born to walk alone! ...barb! you left me hangin' on the high

the war against isis. i suppose you could say as we approach a new election with new foreign policy discussions i would hope people would bear in mind people we have a few at least one candidate who is himself a veteran. i would hope to keep in mind the real causes of the war against isis and of isis itself and as you know from have reported their, the main appeal of isis to iraqis was not a religious appeal it was a political appeal. isis was a direct reaction to iraqi politics and society that had come out of the american occupation. >> i feel like the appeal of isis when you talk to folks in iraq is multifaceted. there was no single thing that drove people to embrace and not necessarily to embrace isis but to embrace it. to say we will give them a chance. what had happened to set the stage for isis. >> for the rise of isis and why people abided it. in the book i take it back real far to ancient history in the ancient historians in a talk about the history of warfare in northern mesopotamia in mesopotami

many still fiercely loyal to isis. when i asked a group of women and children if isis was finished, they hurled insults and water bottles at me and held up a single finger representing the one true god in the camp i met hoda, an isis bride who claims she now opposes isis what happens to all these other people in the camp do you think they are still dangerous? >> it's obvious who are still radical, who are still dangerous. >> reporter: today president trump says he wants isis members here returned to their home countries mostly in europe but their governments are refusing to take them back. >> they could try them, do what they want, and at some point i'll say i'm sorry but you either take them back or we'll let them go at your border. >> so richard, whether the president can in fact empty the camps, there is real reason to be concerned about them >> absolutely. this is a ticking time bomb you have tens of thousands of people who are still committed to the isis ideology herded together, nowhere to go, no hope for their f

islamic jihad, isis philippines, isis west africa and ttp in pakistan. further, we're announcing the designation of aldean and the jihadist group in syria as especially designated global terrorist entity. as these actions show today's executive order by president trump adds further muscle to u.s. counter terrorism efforts. it will help us to ensure that the deadly attacks on september 11th that occurred 18 years ago this week are never repeated on american soil. never. at this time secretary mnuchin and i are happy to take questions on this topic. yes, sir? >> did john bolton get fired or did he quit and did he leave the white house because he disagreed with you in particular over talks of the taliban? >> so last night the president asked for ambassador bolton's resignation and it was received this morning? >> was it because of disagreements? >> yes, ma'am, in the back? >> was it because of this disagreement? >> i'll leave it to the president to talk about the reasons he made the decision, but i would say this. the president's entitled to the staff that

many still fiercely loyal to isis. when i asked a group of women and children if isis was finished, they hur and water bottles at me and held up a single finger representing the one true god in the camp i met an isis bride who claims she now opposes isis what happens to all these other people in the camp do you think they are still dangerous? >> it's obvious who are still radical, who are still dangerous. >> reporter: today president trump says he wants isis members here returned to their home countries mostly in europe but their governments are refusing to take them back. >> they could try them, do what they want, and at some point i'll say i'm sorry, take them back or i'll let them go at your border. >> so richard, whether the president can in fact empty the camps, there is real reason to be concerned about them >> absolutely. this is a ticking time bomb you ha t committed to the isis ideology herded together, nowhere to go, no hope for their futurewell >> all right richard engel, thank you. >>> you've got more repor

of us was a house of isis. behind the city there was another war house of isis was up andi was another war house of isis was up and i am in the middle of all of this, reporting against isis! from the beginning i decided that i would only write facts by knowing the source 01’ only write facts by knowing the source or witnessing the event myself. religious police controlled everything. shaving, smoking were all considered immoral and the punishment anything from public lashings to execution. the public executions were a system that isis imposed on the city. they were enjoying theirs. they were feeling the pleasure of terrorising the people. isis wanted to make it like a show, as if they were shooting a film for hollywood. a horror movie. sometimes behaving... 0r film for hollywood. a horror movie. sometimes behaving... or they made a brother shoot his brother. what made mosul eye at the time more powerful is that its message reached out to the international media, and they made it public everywhere. newsnight h

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that isis was helping muslims. he says he entered isis territory in 2015, hoping to become a doctor. how did they treat you? >> pretty much they gave me a blank check to buy whatever i wanted. >> reporter: did you not know that it was a terrorist organization when you joined it? >> to be honest, i was kind of a conspiracy theorist a little bit. >> reporter: yeah, but it's a terrorist organization, abdel. it terrorist organization that's carried out attacks. >> here's the thing, people like me that see this-- that, first of all, don't really believe the fws. >> reporter: you heard him right-- he thought isis terrorism was fake news. like many in this prison, he claims he was never an isis fighter. instead, he says he was a sctim. he told us he lost his arm in a u.s. air strike. ethers here also have terrible injuries. .ome are children. but there's no question this is a dangerous place. the guards showed us this attempted prison break from just four days ago. can't escape and rejoin isis insurgents. abdel claims he

someone in isis? i said, yeah, of course. >> reporter: he was bombarded with isis propaganda videos, he told us. not the ones showing gruesome beheadings, but explaining that isis was helping muslims. he says he entered isis territory in 2015, hoping to become a doctor. how did they treat you? >> pretty much, they gave me a blank check to buy whatever i wanted. >> reporter: did you not know it was a terrorist organization when you joined it? >> to be honest, i was kind of a conspiracy theorist a little bit. >> reporter: but it's a terrorist organization. a terrorist organization that's carried out attacks. >> here's the thing, people like me don't really believe the news. >> reporter: you heard him right. he thought that isis terrorism was fake news. like many in this prison, he claims he was never an isis fighter. instead, he said he was a victim. he lost his arm in a u.s. air strike. others have terrible injuries. some are children. there's no question this is a dangerous place. the guards showed us

number three, isis is not defeated. the us-led military effort successfully pushed isis of the territory it held, but the group transitioned to an insurgency. meanwhile, al qaeda is still active and therefore, the isis population is a few prison breaks away from reconstituting the next area to the u.s. supported forces are strained and securing the population area five, the boots are not leaving syria despite the sanctions and strikes. in addition to the military campaign, iran is entrenching itself in economic and social fabric fo or long-term influenc. number six, russia has exploited its intervention on behalf of us wanted to contest the u.s. influence and leadership. the tires are strained and other support for the defense forces is a leading factor. the turkish military incursion will provide isis the opportunity to reconstitute and the military patrols in a mutually agreed-upon area prevented us area over the time being. number eight, the scale and scope of human suffering for this conflict set up a new standard f

in iraq warn isis is down but not out. dana: as a terror organization, they're even more dangerous. >> plus, she's not old enough to vote, but that's not stopping this climate warrior from making sure her voice is heard. >> i will be stopping my weekly climate strike protests when world leaders meet my demands. >> are political leaders ready to listen? and saving animals one photo at a time. the photographer on a mission to capture every animal on film before it's too late. ♪ soledad: i'm soledad o'brien. welcome to "matter of fact." a new bipartisan report to congress warns the u.s. is facing dire national security congress commissioned the syria study group to build a military and diplomatic strategy to deal with growing instability in syria. the report states that after nine years of conflict, syria is now a safe haven for terror organizations like isis and is threatening to destabilize neighboring countries, including iraq. the report comes two years after iraqi forces, with help from the u.s. military, defeated isis

they say isis hardliners have ehreatened to burn their tents down at night. >> isis is like an idol for them. >> reporter: they still worship isis? >> yeah, too much. >> reporter: these women don't aant to go home. they came here to live under islamic law. >> we are in favor in what allah sent upon us. r he says an adulterer should be stoned, then it's said and i have to accept it. that's it. >> reporter: and what about people who are gay, how should they be treated? >> yeah, they get chucked off a building. >> reporter: thrown off a building? >> yeah. >> reporter: isis may have been defeated on the battlefield, but it still commands the hearts and minds of its followers. holly williams, cbs news, al onl, in syria. >> o'donnell: that is incredible sporting. there is still much more ahead right here on tonight's "cbs evening news." delta passengers panic when deir jet suddenly drops nearly 30,000 feet. what caused it? yter, yet another death linked ao vaping as federal investigators are looking for a cause. cc1: even when i'm spending, i'm earning 1.5% cash back on everything i buy. (sho

next door was an isis senior fighter, the other house next to our house was a isis fighter, in front of us was a house of isis. was behind the city there was another war house of isis was up and i am in the middle of all of this, reporting against isis! from the beginning i decided that i would only write facts by knowing the source or witnessing the event myself. religious police controlled everything. shaving, smoking were all considered immoral and the punishment anything from public lashings to execution. the public executions were a system that isis imposed on the city. they were enjoying theirs. they were feeling the pleasure of terrorising the people. isis wanted to make it like a show, as if they were shooting a film for hollywood. a horror movie. sometimes behaving... or they made a brother shoot his brother. what made mosul eye at the time more powerful is that its message reached out to the international media, and they made it public everywhere. newsnight has spoken to the writer of a blog, a blog called mosul eye which has been communicating the bite of the city for over

against isis! from the beginning i decided that i would only write facts by knowing the source or witnessing the event myself. religious police controlled everything. shaving, smoking were all considered immoral and the punishment anything from public lashings to execution. the public executions were a system that isis imposed on the city. they were enjoying theirs. they were feeling the pleasure of terrorising the people. isis wanted to make it like a show, as if they were shooting a film for hollywood. a horror movie. sometimes behaving... or they made a brother shoot his brother. what made mosul eye at the time more powerful is that its message reached out to the international media, and they made it public everywhere. newsnight has spoken to the writer of a blog, a blog called mosul eye which has been communicating the bite of the city for over two years. i was resisting the fundamentals of the narrative, and it was something they really didn‘t like. that was my strength, and that was my thou

many of the new arrivals have direct ties to isis. they were organized and quickly established their version of the moral police, terrorizing those who refused to wear the full veil. beneath the black uniformity, some women want nothing more than to leave. i don't care if it's the kurds or even the americans who control my town, this woman pleads. but there is no reintegration program. this is an open-air prison. >> what do you want? >> i want to go home. are you scared from us? >> should i be? >> i'm just asking. a lot of people, that's why they're talking in our countries to take us back. >> if they gave you an option, let's say, of creating another caliphate for you -- >> no. >> no? >> no. >> you're done? >> a lot of women, they think the same. >> reporter: but few countries are repatriating their nationals. the living conditions are horrendous. it's filthy. there's little access to medical care. clean water is scarce. food is rationed. a chat group has turned this place into a cause for isis, referring to it as the al hol death ca

against isis! from the beginning i decided that i would only write facts by knowing the source or witnessing the event myself. religious police controlled everything. shaving, smoking were all considered immoral and the punishment anything from public lashings to execution. the public executions were a system that isis imposed on the city. they were enjoying theirs. they were feeling the pleasure of terrorising the people. isis wanted to make it like a show, as if they were shooting a film for hollywood. a horror movie. sometimes behaving... or they made a brother shoot his brother. what made mosul eye at the time more powerful is that its message reached out to the international media, and they made it public everywhere. newsnight has spoken to the writer of a blog, a blog called mosul eye which has been communicating the bite of the city for over two years. i was resisting the fundamentals of the narrative, and it was something they really didn't like. that was my strength, and that was my though

fellow beings, isis west africa and tpb in pakistan. we are announcing the designation of forest outing, a javascript in syria as a specially designated global terrorist entity. as these actions show today's executive order by president trump adds further muscle to us counterterrorism efforts. it will help ensure the deadly attacks of september 11 that occurred 18 years ago this week are never repeated on american soil. never. this time secretary mnuchin and i would be happy to do questions . >> did john bolton get fired or did he quit and did he leave the white house and said he disagreed with you in particular over thosetalks ? >> last night the president asked for ambassador bolton's resignation. as i understand it it was received this morning . >> what were the disagreements. >>. ayes, ma'am in the back. >> was it because of this disagreement? >> i'll leave it to the president to talk about why you made the decision but the president entitled to the staff he wants and at any moment, there's a staff person who works for the president

david: let's take a look at isis. the president said isis was defeated. but it doesn't mean that they are company gone. there are now male isis fighters 2000 from 40 countries sitting in makeshift detention camps run by the syrian relations with our backing desk syrian miller -- run by the syrian militias with our backing. very few have been repatriated. their own countries do not want them back. there are 70,000 civilian women and children who are also in at least one camp in syria. in which many people are concerned has become a major isis breeding ground. so, how worried are you as you leave this job about creating that this generation of islamic extremists and foot soldiers? gen. dunford: i think you have highlighted for me the major strategic concern in addition to, as you mentioned, there are 2.3 million refugees inside of turkey right now, literally millions of displaced persons inside of syria today. you mentioned the cap that has 70,000, there are many other camps with perhaps not 70,000, but thousands of people, in conditions you would not want

there are tens of thousands of isis members, isis supporters that are looking to reconstitute the isis state, the isis leader, baghdadi issued a call on supporters to increase their attacks against the west. they want revenge. they want revenge for having attacked them in iraq and syria. and we got a lot of access to isis detainees torques the battlefields itself, to people who were involved in the campaign, and we examined over the course of an hour, what isis was all about from the inside. what it was like to live under isis, how isis recruited, also how it used its propaganda to attract more and more followers. >> wage war. >> the most powerful weapon in the isis arsenal turned out to be propaganda, a media blitz that drew in thousands of new recruits. >> it is the rise of the -- >> reporter: slick music videos depicted an epic struggle of good versus evil and isis were the good guys. recruits were told they were noble warriors on a divine mission to bring pride back to islam. the truth was much darker. >> isis wanted thugs and criminals. thugs and criminals is what they got. >> so

in fact, he told us he'd moved other isis members before. he even bragged that he'd smuggled three brothers of notorious al qaeda terrorist abu musabl al-zarqawi, a claim we cannot confirm. the smugglers used stolen identity documents. we went undercover again, this time posing as smugglers ourselves, and found criminals with hundreds of them for sale in athens, including u.s. passports. they try to match their customers with an i.d. photo they resemble. then the smugglers use the stolen documents to fly people from athens to spain or italy, where they claim security is lax. from there, they can travel anywhere in western europe with no border checks. the greek police are targeted human smugglers and have made arrests. but several members of the isis terror cell that carried out attacks in france and belgium came through greece, and there are fears that criminals like alrayes have already helped isis sleeper cells make their way into the heart of europe. holly williams, cbs news, athens. >> and there is still much more ahead. a major mix-up

troops on the ground, and they're here to help combat isis. the terrorists have become insurgents, carrying out attacks in syria, like this car bombing in a christian neighborhood in july. >> they went to ground. they're hiding, and trying it stay away from the security forces. >> reporter: the senior special forces commander in the fight against isis told us the defeat in march was actually a strategic retreat. >> i think isis decided, as they were losing that last little bit of territory for them to hold, that it was worth living to fight another day and going to the prisons. >> reporter: what's their plan? >> i think their plan is to resurge and continue to try and reestablish their caliphate at some point. >> reporter: the prisons he's talking about house 12,000 accused isis fighters, according to their guards, including 4500 foreigners. marry makeshift and overcrowded. on our recent visit we were told an escape could happen at any moment. the commanding general of american-backed syrian forces told us the prisons are ticking timebombs. he

where children are dancing around the isis flag. tonight, the trump administration responding to our report. >>> getting out alive. reports a cia operative delivering secrets back to the u.s. from deep inside the kremlin. tonight, news on the reported mission to get him out alive and where its believed he is now. >>> and the american family trapped atop a waterfall. putting a message for help on a bottle and sending it down the falls. what happens next. >>> and good evening tonight from houston, where the stage is set for the democratic debate right here on abc, just two days from now. and we're going to have much more on that in just a moment. but we do begin tonight with the other political bombshell, the major shakeup at the white house tonight. president trump firing his national security adviser, john bolton. the president tweeting that he disagreed strongly with many of bolton's suggestions, saying, "your services are no longer needed." tonight, bolton with his own response, actually sending a text to a fox news host while he

where children are dancing around the isis flag. tonight, the trump administration responding to our report. >>> getting out alive. reports a cia operative delivering secrets back to the u.s. from deep inside the kremlin. tonight, news on the reported mission to get him out alive and where its believed he is now. >>> and the american family trapped atop a waterfall. putting a message for help on a bottle and sending it down the falls. what happens next. >>> and good evening tonight from houston, where the stage is set for the democratic debate right here on abc, just two days from now. and we're going to have much more on that in just a moment. but we do begin tonight with the other political bombshell, the major shakeup at the white house tonight. president trump firing his national security adviser, john bolton. the president tweeting that he disagreed strongly with many of bolton's suggestions, saying, your services are no longer needed. bolton actually sending a text to a fox news host while he was on the air, contradicting the

but the isis members, isis as a terrorist organization, isis as an ideological destination for radical, violent people, that still exists. that still exists in quite a large way. there are tens of thousands of people who lived in the caliphate who are now homeless. they have nowhere to go. some of them are in detention facilities that we visited, detention facilities that are appalling conditions. there's one camp in syria that has about 70,000 people in it. people are dying there. they have nothing to do. they are still ideologically very radical, and they have no real future. so when you have a group of people who have radical beliefs, no future, no off-ramp for them and they're all together, that is a ticking time bomb. >> recipe for radicalism. >> remember what happened in afghanistan before 9/11. you had all these extreme jihadis brought to afghanistan to fight against the soviet union. they were left there. they coalesced around osama bin laden and 9/11 happened. we have a similar situation when you have tens of thousands of former caliphate citizen sitting around in iraq and syr

isis flag. i concerned about the refugee camps becoming a breeding ground, a training ground for terrorists, for isis fighters? there is a long history of what you are describing, camps in iraq and other places where prisoners were detained, and extremist elements breeding in those areas was that we have conducted enormous operations against isis even after the fall of caliphate, as recently as in the la st caliphate, as recently as in the last you days will stop we are confident in the success we have had. we will not take our eye off the ball, ensuring that whether it is isis or other radical islamist extremist groups, they will be under pressure from the united states of america. that would include in these camps that you are referring to. go—ahead. camps that you are referring to. go-ahead. the white house says that the national security adviser bolton's foreign policy was not aligned with the president's agenda. how was it misaligned? i will leave that to the president to say. i have work

that a member isis could potentially have usen elsewhere? >> terrifies me. >> reporter: the greek police are targeting human smugglers and have made arrests. ( gunfire ) but several members of the isis terror cell that carried out attacks in france and belgium came through greece, and there are fears that human smugglers have already helped more isis sleeper cells make their way into the heart of europe. holly williams, cbs news, athens. >> ninan: an anti-vaccine activist is facing assault charges tonight after throwing what appeared to be blood on state lawmakers. several members were hit by the red liquid. protesters were gathered at the state capitol to oppose two new bills limiting medical exemptions for vaccinations. well, new details tonight on actress felicity huffman's sentencing in the college admissions scandal. huffman must turn herself in by october 25 for a two-week stay at a minimum-security prison in california. according to prison guidelines, huffman will be allowed to sunbathe at a certain time, but must also make her own be

and the domination of isis in the establishment -- devices. extremism isinst far from over. we have made significant progress against isis. >> we will drill down on each of those. let me start with the same military strategy you described. during your tenure, the military strategy of the united states radically changed. we moved from government that was focused on counterterrorism to one that said, russia and china were revisionist powers. that the correction -- the direction of the united states had to be to deal with that change. and yet, when you talk to people within the pentagon, it is hard to change mindsets. we still have active conflicts underway in afghanistan and obviously iraq is a challenging arena. to focus truly going on russia and china, do we have to give something up? can we continue at the pace at which we have been dealing with all of these hotspots you just described while we are trying to refocus -- gen. dunford: it is a fair question i would argue that we have -- it is a fair question. as you indicated, it is fair to to 2

isis are the terrorists. >> translator: israel supports isis? >> translator: undoubtedly. do you have any doubts? would you like to see the proof? you should visit israeli hospitals and see the injured isis war fighters, how they are being taken care of. you should see the weapons captured from isis fighters and see they are israeli made. the challenges sometimes american media outlets failed to reveal the truth to the american public. daily receive the news from one specific viewpoint, channel, if you will. that is why the people of america are frankly not very well aware of the realities in our region. of the american people were to know that so many amenities on a daily basis with their money and weapon systems are being instantly killed and their lives taken away they would not stay silent. >> reporter: since donald trump pulled out of the nuclear deal last year, iran has taken steps to violate the agreement themselves. you have broken the limits on enriching uranium, on stockpiles of enriched uranium and now you are using advanced centrifuges. if you were a year away

does he have tied to isis? >>> ultimate option. president trump refusing to rule out military retaliation against iran for the attack on a major saudi oil facility which the secretary of state is now calling an act of war. >>> whistleblower withheld. president trump acting spy chief is refusing to comply with the house intelligence committee subpoena for an urgent whistleblower complaint. >>> and new adviser. the president picks a former

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