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A critical moment tonight in the fight against isis. u.s.-backed forces are closing in on the terror group's last two major cities. only a section of mosul in iraq is still under isis control and isis fighters are now surrounded in their self-described capital, raqqah in syria. not too far from there is where we find cnn's nick paton walsh. >> reporter: i'm about 40 miles away from raqqah city itself and how things have changed since we were here 18 months ago. this used to be the front line but now isis surrounded entirely, cordoned off in what they still call the capital of their self-declar...

A critical moment tonight in the fight against isis. u.s.-backed forces are closing in on the terror group's last two major cities. only a section of mosul in iraq is still under isis control and isis fighters are now surrounded in their self-described capital, raqqah in syria. not too far from there is where we find cnn's nick paton walsh. >> reporter: i'm about 40 miles away from raqqah city itself and how things have changed since we were here 18 months ago. this used to be the front line but now isis surrounded entirely, cordoned off in what they still call the capital of their self-declar...

They want to go home and i think there's a feeling potentially amongst the peshmerga and the coalition backing them up that a swift and decisive victory here could perhaps turn the narrative curve of isis beginning to lose territory now. and maybe with the loss of the vial supply route -- and make no mistake, they don't have that road. they didn't have full control of it. maybe that might actually have a bigger symbolic impact against isis itself. wolf. >> i know you're very busy over there, it's a very dangerous situation. one final question. any indication these heroic kurdish fighters, the ...

President obama says he's not exactly itching for military action in syria. that he would rather have an international coalition backing him up. but, he says, the united states must stand up and act. this coming tuesday the president will address the nation and tell you, the american people, again why and how he reached this decision. i want to take a look back at some of the times he spoke publicly about syria in recent weeks. beginning with the president speaking with our own chris cuomo after syria's chemical weapons attack. >> first of all, i have not made a decision. i have gotten options...

Around saudi arabia, and now, a commodity trader knows this region well. he is worried. and saying $106 could be looking like a bargain pretty soon. will it spread? that is the question? >>guest: well, this is a very serious situation we have escalating in the middle east. what we have now are regimes that are falling, the protesters start the protests and the regimes are falling. the freedom fever has proven that if the regimes get started then maybe a coalition backing could give other oil rich countries the reason to start another revolution and now that they know there could be a coalition...