The U.S. believes ISIS has tripled its fighting capacity, according to new estimates from the CIA.
The report comes as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry travels to Turkey and Egypt to rally support across the Middle East to increase military strikes against the Islamic State.
Our Washington correspondent Priscilla Huff has an update:
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In an interview with America's NBC News, Syria's deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said that his country and the United States are fighting the same enemy...and based on Syria's key role two decades ago when Iraq invaded Kuwait, Washington and Damascus should be talking.
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