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Skirts of mosul. the distance from mosul depending on the direction, it is not uniform. advances are being made and made quickly. 80 towns and villages have now been taken in the campaign since it began. not everyone is eight miles from mosul. that is the point. they are trying to even sincirc city and that is where you see people flee the city. we have a sunni tribal leader outside mosul who has seen dozens a day fleeing from mosul crossing isis-held terrorist into syria. he said fighters and f...

The outskirts of mosul. if you look around mosul, they are still well back. we have been covering one particular strategically important town and surroundingvilsurrounding villag villages. they tried to probe their way in. they were hit by bombs and sniper fire. what is happening today is rockets mainly fired in specific areas. that is from apache helicopters and the like. one presumes that is to eliminate the sniper positions and get rid of the vehicle-born explosive devices. kurds can then mov...

Developing overnight. a terror attack on a police training academy in pakistan killed 60 people. five or six terrorists entered the hostel. two others died when they detonated bombs they were carrying. some 200 trainees were rescued. developments in the battle for mosul. coalition forces closing in on mosul. iraqi and peshmerga troops a few miles from the city. fighting has been fierce along the way. the coalition freed dozens of villages from isis occupation. as they advance, isis fighters ap...

So ago and were driven back by car bombs. they still didnt get to go in yesterday, but today, we are seeing more air efforts brought in. rockets fired from apache helicopters. they are trying to identify the problem positions and take them out to the peshmerga can clear out the isis fighters. we think there are no civilians in the city. that is some good news. it is a strategic city because it is a supply route into mosul. if they cut it off and secure it, thats another step on the way to encirc...

On the city. iraqi and peshmerga troops are along the border. the coalition freed dozens of villages from isis occupation. as they advance, it does appear to be the fact that many isis fighters are fleeing. leaving in the other direction and going to syria. cnns michael holmes has seen this happening. michael, what can you tell us? >> reporter: john, thats right. that word coming from a senior sunni tribal leader who witnessed isis members, fighters, families knfleeing across still isis controll...