Into Mosul News Today

As a group loses its territory, sleeper cells have been launching an attack and liberated parts of mosul. dozens of suicide bombers set to houses and cars, spreading widespread panic. hundreds of families have been streaming out of mosul as iraqi forces launch its final push. 150,000 civilians are trapped in the old city and they are being used as human shields. its been three years since isis stormed into mosul. it was seen as a final realization of their impending loss. isis are very close to ...

Saying if the siege is in mosul come on in as quickly as you can. right now theyre counting 2,000 fighters in mosul. it will be much more than that by the time an offensive commences. remember the battle of fallujah so difficult for u.s. marines and soldiers americas most fearsome fighting force? there were 2,000 enemy in that city to expect the iraqi army to be capable and with nine months of training i hope they can get there. but military planners realize sustained logistics to push all the w...

The eyes of the muslim world. they will get stronger. this is an urgent need to take on isis to get them out of mosul and do it immediately. not throwing a few sorties in a day but a concentrated effort with american participation. >> they have a theology these most hardened radical butchers as weve seen them demonstrate themselves that is sort of attempting armageddon. they want to bring about destruction on a level that weve never seen before. they think its necessary for fulfilling their take...

The -- the west has a thousand-year war with islam is islam was ever expanding. when islam began to contract it collapsed. and the caliphate was eliminated. now theyve established a caliphate. they are dead serious about expanding it. unless we begin to take back that ground and make this caliphate, you know irrelevant in the eyes of the muslim world or the radical muslim world we are going to have a bigger and bigger problem. so the key is to act promptly and to make sure that america is involv...

The eyes of the muslim world. they will get stronger. this is an urgent need to take on isis to get them out of mosul and do it immediately. not throwing a few sorties in a day but a concentrated effort with american participation. >> they have a theology these most hardened radical butchers as weve seen them demonstrate themselves that is sort of attempting armageddon. they want to bring about destruction on a level that weve never seen before. they think its necessary for fulfilling their take...

In the process isis fighters are saying if the siege is in mosul come on in as quickly as you can. right now theyre counting 2,000 fighters in mosul. it will be much more than that by the time an offensive commences. remember the battle of fallujah so difficult for u.s. marines and soldiers americas most fearsome fighting force? there were 2,000 enemy in that city to expect the iraqi army to be capable and with nine months of training i hope they can get there. but military planners realize sust...

The -- the west has a thousand-year war with islam is islam was ever expanding. when islam began to contract it collapsed. and the caliphate was eliminated. now theyve established a caliphate. they are dead serious about expanding it. unless we begin to take back that ground and make this caliphate, you know irrelevant in the eyes of the muslim world or the radical muslim world we are going to have a bigger and bigger problem. so the key is to act promptly and to make sure that america is involv...

Christians and muslims who oppose isis as well as jews. this is a caliphate that is being -- has been established. and that means they are as pete said, calling people from all over the world to come and fight this battle. as long as they hold ground, as long as they can continue to expand that ground, more and more will come. the fact that we are delaying means that the caliphate continues to exist. theyre not losing ground. theyre not being discredited in the eyes of the muslim world. they wil...

Few days, perhaps advising, perhaps planning more. no one knows for sure. arwa damon is in the kurdish area of iraq. youre in one of the places where the iraqi military says things are okay, and that is because of the kurdish fighters, not the types who are down weapons and uniforms and flee. what is happening outside of the kurdish area, though? >> reporter: well, michael, the minute you leave the border of the autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan you effectively enter territory controlled by i...