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Rallying cry? >> oh, absolutely because isis continued to take every single home and turn it into a fighting position. dont forget isis is to blame. isis came in and hijacked the people of mosul. i cant imagine any reasonable argument that anybody but isis is responsible for the vast destruction of mosul at this point. we applaud and we congratulate the iraqi security forces for coming back and returning mosul to the people. >> the iraqi prime minister was quick to come to mosul, wearing a milit...

Has very little regard for anybody who doesnt share their deformed world view. so anybody who is attempting to escape is not one of them. therefore, their life is meaningless. >> and civilians have been used as cover. recent reports have suggested that american air strikes indiscriminately killed civilians, but colonel work kept calling it precision fire. >> when you walk around the old city, it looks like the place was carpet bombed. how can you have so much precision fire and yet so much devas...

Was carpet bombed. how can you have so much precision fire and yet so much devastation? >> because the islamic state fighters who occupied those buildings took someones home, took someones school, and turned it into a fighting position. thats how that happens. it was precise. the strike hit exactly where it was supposed to. >> precision or not, the fact of the matter is that large parts of this city have been flattened by american munitions. we will never know how many people were killed by air ...

Continued to take every single home and turn it into a fighting position. dont forget isis is to blame. isis came in and hijacked the people of mosul. i cant imagine any reasonable argument that anybody but isis is responsible for the vast destruction of mosul at this point. we applaud and we congratulate the iraqi security forces for coming back and returning mosul to the people. >> the iraqi prime minister was quick to come to mosul, wearing a military-style uniform and proudly announcing that...

A few miles away in a control center, american and iraqi officers were watching the live feed from an overhead drone. they checked the coordinates -- >> the strike is southeast. >> -- deconflicted the airspace, and approved the attack. an aircraft delivered the payload on the mosque just 50 yards from our position. the major and his men moved a few steps forward. on the battlefield as mosul, that counted as a good day. >> are they going to be able to point to the debris of mosul and say, look wh...

And military partnership between them, as well, and its drawing a counterbalance to the political and military strength of the united states. >> okay. matthew, thank you very much, indeed. weve been watching that meeting, of course. meanwhile, isis has taken a major blow. the very city it considers its capital, raqqa in syria. u.s. central command says american-backed syrian forces breached a wall surrounding the old city. isis militants have been using it as a strategic fighting position. the g...

Raqqah has been under isis control for more than three years now, using the old city wall as a fighting position. cnns senior international correspondent nick paton walsh joining me live in erbil with the latest. >> reporter: it is a key moment according to the coalition statement, got through the outer old city walls swiftly. they appear to have broached two substantial holes in the wall and that enabled the syrian, kurdish and arab forces surrounding ground and air support to get in and around...

Family over the july 4th holiday weekend. that beach and others were off limits to the public because of a state government shutdown. theyll reopen later on tuesday after legislators reached a budget deal. in northern syria, there is a major new development in the battle against isis in the de facto capital of raqqah. the u.s. central command says u.s.-backed syrian forces have now breached a wall surrounding raqqahs old city. thats key because isis militants have been using the wall as a stra...

Prudent measures to reposition aircraft overseer i cant. the pentagon wont offer details, but the goal is clear. get u.s.-backed ground forces to push isis out. >> they are sending warnings to the syrians, to the iranians and to the russians that this offensive must be the top priority and it cannot be hindered. >> reporter: when the syrian war plane attacked those u.s.-backed forces on the ground, the u.s. reacted. it began sunday at 4:30 p.m. pro-syrian regime forces attacked the u.s.-backed f...

Allies in what it called a misdirected airstrike. an opposition group support beside i the u.s. fight against isis. military officials say it was wrongly identified as an isis fighting position, that incident is under investigation. the trump administration ordering dozens of additional troops to somalia, they will be training them and providing counter terrorism support fighting the al qaeda affiliate al shabab. they arrived in moegdy sshmoegd. >> 15 minutes past the hour, the man dragged off...