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Back tikrit, but the second largest city of iraq mosul now needs to be taken and that's what they're going to try to do in 2016. there's a very good chance that isis will be punish pushed out over the next year. >> mosul is key in all of this, isn't it? >> yes. sure is. >> general, thank you. >> sure. and now to the race for the white house. republican front-runner donald trump continuing his onslaught against bill and hilary clinton. he had this to say this morning. >> that's what they said. they called him a racist. i don't believe he is a racist if you want to know the truth. they called ...

Iraqi forces pushing them further up the river bed in effect. i'm going to go back to where we are now. and this is where they were beginning of the year. >> in the river valleys along the tigris, they've taken back tikrit, now the prize in mosul. along the euphrates baghdad tora ma di is now clear. >> you noted earlier mosul is five times the size of ramadi, so five times as difficult? >> well, it's going to be five times more difficult because not only that the main supply base for the iraqi army, for them to be able to fight up the river valley all the way to mosul on extended logistics lin...

Think what secretary kerry referenced the iraqi government come out and say they want to take aggressive actions to take back ramadi. i remind you just a month ago with the backing of the united states with coalition forces they took back tikrit. they've had successes. they've taken back about 25% of populated areas. obviously ramadi was a setback, but they are committed to fighting and committed to taking back land from isis. >> you heard our pentagon correspondent barbara starr report that the u.s. military inadvertently shipped anthrax to nine states as well to a base in south korea. has th...

This is something we do every month or so to measure that progress. this is today, may 2015 yellow areas, isis support zones. red areas under isis control. let's look to three months ago, february virtually unchanged. there are some areas where isis lost some ground around the turkish border gained some here. coalition forces took back tikrit from isis but you have ramadi falling just a few weeks later. again, let's look at the map again. today, three months ago, really almost difficult, almost impossible to detect that until the overall map changes, it is heart for iraqi forces for coalition ...

Caliphate in iraq and syria. and we're doing that. we are taking back territory from them particularly in iraq. i was just talking to our commanders this morning. and in anbar province now we have thousands of tribal fighters organizing to fight isis. and that's going to be ongoing over the coming weeks. 1,100 of them volunteered just two days ago in anbar province near fallujah. and as they are defeated in iraq and syria, they will try to inspire attacks around the world. we've been seeing them do this here and they're trying to do it all around the world. >> sydney, other places as well. you...