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Areas, and in many places they lost their ability to maneuver. isil has not had a single successful major offensive operation on the ground in either syria or iraq. in recent weeks we unleashed a new wave of strikes on their lifeline, oil infrastructures, destroying hundreds of their tankers, trucks, wells and refineries. isil also continues to lose territory in iraq. isil lost at tikrit recently and sinjar losing a strategic highway. they lost at baji. we saw the daring raid support bid our special forces which rescued dozens of prisoners from

T tikrit, they are gaining more territory which is the number one target we have to try to avoid. >> yemen seems like a particularly difficult situation now. what's your take? saudi arabia has been dealing with yemen for a long time. they've been dealing with terrorist groups in the border right inside of saudi arabia but it's getting worse. it's getting much worse. yemen is falling into a pretty weak fragile state at this point, and isis is taking advantage of that. as we see, look the branch in yemen of al qaeda has fought the houthis heavily, isis is taking advantage, fighting aqap and is...

>> i do want to get the colonel back in here shaking your head. your response. >> michael is right. it's a three-pronged attack by both the iraqi security forces the peshmerga and there are some shia militia up there. there are several of them up there and some of the local villages northeast of the tikrit have asked for some of those militia to come up as the iraqi security forces. so i think we need to be careful who we're throwing the rocks at here. it's a three-pronged attack and everyone is trying to work together and it's not a pretty picture, but the iraqi security forces and the prime ...

My question is are all of the arab countries and the coalition, do they have the stomach for this fight? because eventually i do foresee ground forces being deployed. if i might just back up a little bit about the siege of tikrit that's under way, i have to differ with the colonel a little bit here. this is not a fight that will be led by the iraqi security forces or the kurdish peshmerga. i'm afraid that's not the case. it will be led by the shia militia groups by iran and all over social media right now there is a photograph of seoul manny, the commander of the commander guard corps in iran ...