Ramadi Area News Today

Bombing. from where the bombings i should say happened. theres a lot of chaos. a lot of army has been deployed to the street. theres blood on the streets. and yeah, its just a devastating scene. >> as of now, weve been reporting no one has claimed responsibility for these twin bombings. >> no. >> are you hearing anything new? >> yeah, i spoke to a member from hezbollah. as you know, this area is considered to be a stronghold of hezbollah. and they are unwilling to name a suspected group but they...

A very disturbing breaking news coming out of lebanon. an official with the lebanese red cross says at least 37 people are dead, dozens more wounded, following a pair of suicide bombings in beirut. the lebanese capital. journalist is joining us on the phone right now from beirut. youre there on the scene of the bombings. first of all, tell us where they are and what happened. i think weve lost contact. were going to try to reconnect. let me update you. a lebanese official telling cnn the death t...

If you have better information that theyre gearing up to retake the second largest city in their country mosul. >> i think they are actually, wolf. you have to look at it from two directions. if you draw a straight line between raqqah and mosul, thats one line of operations and it goes through the kurdish regions. the reason you dont see the iraqi army in sinjar is because thats part of the kurdish regional government. lets draw another line from baghdad to mosul from south to north. there are a...

Kind of kurd is doing the fighting. the peshmerga from the kurdish regional government up in northern iraq, very clear theyre leading this operation. we saw the occasional sign of all the kurdish groups somewhere in the area but not in evidence at all frankly. this was a peshmerga operation. it was always thought to be one. the americans who are clearly in the skies but according to them today when you talk to them on the ground, perhaps other western militaries too, advising this operation. the...

Neighborhood isnt associated with the group hezbollah. its mixed sunni/shia neighborhood on the outskirts of a major palestinian camp in beirut. >> this area well been saying is the burj al barajneh area, is that right? >> yes, just on the fringe of the refugee camp. its a mix of sunni and shia. >> its a mixed area. were going to stay in close touch with you and get more information. obviously, a horrendous situation happening. at least 37 dead, 181 wounded. but those numbers could go up. well h...

Its called burj al barajneh. no claiming of responsibility by anyone yet. it is a stronghold of lebanons hezbollah group whos fighting in syria alongside the government there of bashar al assad and the iranians. this area has been hit in the past. sunni militant groups have threatened to carry out more such attacks. as of right now, as of right now, we have no direct claim of responsibility for what happened. once again, 37 people dead. 181 wounded in beirut. i think were trying to reconnect. wi...

>> the iraqi military is really tied up around the ramadi area, the baiji area. they are splitting the territory within iraq as per their greatest concentration of forces. theyre trying to build greater cooperation and coordination. the iraqi ambassador here says theyre going to set up a point man, a military chief who would be talking to the coalition and representing the iraqi army, the kurds, and the sunni fighting forces. but we havent seen that yet. so its a forcing function. this fight for...

Out in syria have been really on any challenge to bashar al assad and defending his shrinking area of control in the western part of the country. but they do see an opening through diplomatic channels, the talks that are going on in vienna, where both sides could get to a place. they see a possibility, i should say, where both sides could get to a place where they agree theres a political transition and if al assad is not leaving tomorrow or next month or next year, that at some point he is out ...