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Country, whos never, ever gotten involved in politics before, but is now. so they seem to be blunting the advance. while they say this is not a sectarian battle, that the shias are brothers with the sunnis, that is whats happening, and the country is dividing along these, along the shia/sunni sectarian fault lines. it still has a long wray to go yet, but its hard to say at this time how it can be reversed. i talked with a sunni tribesman backing isis. he doesnt share theyre radical islamic views...

A man who calls himself basal and a doctor causes, collecting his thoughts. so, talk, answer quickly. are you cooking up lies, shouts the other. vis video is one of eight interrogations obtained by cnn from syrian operationists. speaking with distinct iraqi accents and asking about whats going on in a town northeast of alep aleppo. from the questions its clear theyre not with the president, bashar al assad but rather with isis, the iz loomic state of iraq and syria. its not clear what happened t...

To hear your reaction on the other end. >> translator: they believed this was the beginning of the end. but we say this is the beginning of their end. their defeat. because it sparked a passion and determination in all soldiers and officers in and in all iraqi people. iraqis came in thousands. we were unable to mobilize all the people who volunteerrd and wanted to confront this evil organization, which is pushed by foreign forces that do not want good to iraq. >> so maliki sounding very confiden...

Home. authorities are racing to evacuate many of them already. alexandra field joining us now from new york. how dire, how desperate is the situation? >> reporter: look, fred, the state department is clearly keeping a very close eye on the deteriorating situation there. theyre concerned about security of americans still in that country, but at this point what the state department tells us is that it has not changed its staffing at the embassy or the consulates. the area we are focused now is bal...

Town from the syrian border south. you can see them there close to baghdad. as well iraqs second largest city has fallen to the group as weve been reporting all week, and, yeah, the capital not far away. iraq on a major military recruiting drive this weekend. not just the government recruiting either. militias are recruiting. they all need people, lots of them, to quickly pump up the number of those who can hold a weapon and potentially fight. the prime minister said thousands of iraqis have ste...

This being the backdrop. lets move to iraq now and the prime minister there saying there will be harsh consequences for anyone that deserted the mail tear in mosul. arwa damon live from erbil. you spoke exclusively to a colonel. what was his explanation. >> reporter: one of the first questions we posed to him. he did want his identity concealed, his voice altered. we started why him and his 600 men abandoned their post. >> translator: we got a dpraul our brigade commander saying, leave the base,...

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...

Floggings and executions and most recently joined other groups left well over 2,000 dead. even al qaeda leader demanded isis leave syria. missing in the interrogations is any mention whatsoever of the assad regime. the only concern is the challenge posed by other opposition factions and the local populace to isis. [ speaking in foreign language ] who is erasing the slogans and symbols of isis on the walls, demands the interrogator. i swear, i dont know, as god is my witness, responds this man. w...

The persian gulf with two other ship its later this evening. vaek in a major crisis as militants are threatening to march on baghdad. the islamic state in iraq and syria also known at isis is also taken iraqs second largest city of mosul and theyve left a trail of blood and violence behind them. today iraqs government is rushing to recruit volunteer fighters. shiite supporters are answering call in baghdad, boarding bus, ready to take um arms and fight. president obama said his national security...

Hes right. to nation problem that will take years and require political, diplomatic and other actions. again, he has stressed that in his speech yesterday, but what hes facing right now is, as he syd, the momentum of an isis force with military moves can cut off baghdad, besiege the city, put the people there under pressure. we saw this against us in 2004 when when we had 100,000 american troops. all the bridges around baghdad were blown and we had difficulty getting supplies in. good as the ame...