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To isis complicates the efforts to defeat the terrorist group. ramadi is about 70 miles or so west of baghdad as the capital of iraqs hugely important anbar province. the loss of the city raising strategic and political concerns. lets get more analysis. joining us the former assistant secretary of state james rubin and former democratic congresswoman jane harman, for scholars here in washington. how much of a setback, jane is this the loss of isis the loss of ramadi to isis right now? >> i think...

I think this is good because at the end of the day, the iraqis not about sunni and shia iraqi nationalists and right now they have a common enemy and they want to defeat daesh, isis in al anbar. >> final question to you, on the u.s. delta force operation, the special operations force that went into syria and killed abu sayyaf described as the chief financial officer of isis how big of a deal do you believe this is? >> well its, you know a mid-sized deal i guess. i mean the individual will be rep...

Can go back in there and really bomb them hard with air strikes and allow the iraqis to get re-set and go back in and grab that terrain. >> the isis fighters who have now taken over ramadi just as they took over last year mosul, the second largest city in iraq a city of 2 million people not only will they collect all the weapons that the iraqi military abandoned including armored personnel carriers artillery, tanks, a lot of sophisticated weaponry that the iraqi military like they did in mosul, ...

This is whats happened in other towns and territories taken by isis, pillaged, hacked and sold. artifacts standing for thousands of years as testament to mans flights of imagination deemed unislamic by isis. the winged gods 900 bc, the muslim museum across iraq and syria in the place of priceless art ifacts, iceless has left rubble as the world stood helpless. palmyra recognized by the united nations as one of the most significant monuments in the middle east now the u.n. is pleading with the wo...

P p palmira and killing as it goes. militants executed 23 family members of syrian government officials in a village nearby. the london-based syrian observatory for human rights sayshe murdered were children. there are concerns it will bulldoze the world heritage site as it has done to so many others throughout iraq and syria. this dates back 2,000 years. nema l bagr has why it is so important. >> reporter: for 2,000 years its column answer temples loomed over the oasis at the heart of syria, a ...

In the middle east. now the u.n. is pleading with the world to find a way to save this symbol of our shared past. >> i dont know what is happening in palmyra, i am worried. alarmed by what is happening. lets hope this wonderful monument will not be destroyed like we have seen unfortunately in some of the other in some of the bulldozing and bombing of these sites. >> reporter: across iraq and syria, palmyra and seven other ancient sites and cities are on the u.n.s cultural agency unesco danger, o...

Syrian/turkish border through syria and into anbar province right to the western outskirts of baghdad, providing them with that vital supply line, also a line for fighters coming in across that pretty much non-existent border, and that would mean that isis would pretty much be in control of iraqs largest province, anbar, the sunni heartland and the vast desert province has been pretty much under the control of isis, the majority of it has been under isis control since last year, and it has been ...

Isis militants are on the offensive in ramadi and taken over government buildings from iraqi forces. u.s. official says the situation in this key city is still very fluid. at least 47 iraqi security members and more than two dozen civilians were killed on friday. the u.s. is expediting a weapons shipment to help iraqi forces. and indian prime minister narendra modi officially wrapped up his trip to china. both nations signed agreements to boost economic ties over a wide range of issues includi...

>> of course the main area of concern here is that this would be a major blow, atika, for the iraqi government, for the u.s.-led coalition. this would be the first major iraqi city. it is the provincial capital of anbar that would basically fall into isis for the first time since the coalition air strikes began since this battle against isis intensified last summer, and the one line that we have been hearing over and over from weather from u.s. officials or from the iraqi government is that isis...

Anbar province, back in april. we saw this major displacement of people in anbar province with more than 120,000 iraqis according to the you nations displaced by the offensive. now we hear more people are leaving ramadi. where do they go? theres concern about families not being able to get into neighboring provinces like baghdad, predominantly sunni families, sunni people from this province and a lot of sectarian dynamics when it comes to the displacement issue and where people are allowed to go...