Russian air forces bombed a site close to U.S. troops in Syria on Tuesday, a near-miss in the fog of war against the Islamic State -- though the strikes still hit U.S.-backed forces. The general said 12,000-15,000 ISIS fighters are essentially split evenly between Iraq and Syria. It would cause a problem.”Townsend also updated reporters on the effort to liberate the northern Iraq city of Mosul, where roughly 2,000 ISIS forces are positioned. Townsend also said ISIS forces hiding among civilian populations remains a problem and that the situation won’t improve until U.S. forces get into the cities and more-populated areas. Townsend said ISIS still has "freedom of movement" in the Euphrates River valley along the Syrian-Iraq border.

Source: Fox News March 01, 2017 18:38 UTC