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Claimed a caliphate more than a year ago. after a recent string of defeats north of bag dar and sinjar mountain where the fight against isis began, baghdadi warned in a new audio recording that despite the setbacks isis remains strong. promising an epic final battle. and today iraqi prime minister al badi tweeted what he called complete confidence that iraqis are now going to liberate mosul. but a spokesperson for the coalition says first the iraqis have a lot of work to retake and secure all of anbar province including fallujah. the coalition also needs to finish training the remainder of the...

From the defense secretary made exclusively to cnn. let's turn to jim acosta. is this new operation iraq response to carter's comments do you think? >> reporter: well i don't know about that michaela but the white house is certainly doing some fence mending with the iraqis after defense secretary ash carter questioned their will to fight in the battle against isis within hours after iraqi prime minister al badi responded basically saying flat wrong about their will to fight. vice president joe biden called the iraqi leader to praise the bravery of his country's forces. here's that comment from...

Before. they just didn't have the momentum going. but now they've seen a disaster in ramadi. so they needed to move. and ramadi has been -- the government in anbar province has been screaming for help over the last month and more saying they are about to fall. so i think it's a combination of all those things. again, it's also the prime minister trying to keep his country together and trying to as many politicians do console different parties and different actors to try and bring consensus. it's a tough road to hoe in iraq. >> general, michael weiss, thanks so much for helping us try to figure...

>> good evening, everyone. tonight, we have two big breaks stories. one is hurricane irene now officially a major storm. the view here from space it is huge. category 3 and getting stronger this hour. now pointed straight at the carolinas and threatening the entire northeastern seaboard. we'll have a lot of details about that tonight. the other breaking story, of course, libya and the hunt for gadhafi. the opposition's already got his cap. this guy took it out of his palace. now they want that head that goes with it and they're willing to pay. $2.5 million for the dictator dead or ...

again tonight we have two big breaking stories. one is hurricane irene now officially a major storm. the view here from space it is huge. category 3 and getting stronger this hour. now pointed straight at the carolinas and threatening the entire northeastern seaboard. we'll have a lot of details about that tonight. the other breaking story, of course, libya and the hunt for gadhafi. the opposition's already got his cap. this guy took it out of his palace. now they want that head that goes with it and they're willing to pay. $2.5 million for the dictator dead or alive, they say. one...