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Is we've been smart in keeping american ground troops out of this. this is not something where we want ground troops. we don't want military advisers in there. and we don't want forward air control parties in there on the ground that have to be backed up by combat battalions. this is something that these countries in the region are going to fight about for a long time, because it's really about a combination of three things. it's about regional dominance, iran versus saudi arabia. it's about turkey's pretensions in the region, turkey versus iran. and it's about shia versus sunni islam. and all...

Slavery. this guy's wife, who was captured, is said to have been deeply involved in the human trafficking operation. so this was a significant i operation a. defense secretary ashton carter says it was a significant blow to isis. that said, there is another development involving isis gaining more ground in iraq. this continues in the city of ramadi, 70 miles west of baghdad. this is a critical fight because it's a major transportation corridor. tive isis has moved no the center of the city. back in april isis took control of northern and eastern parts of ramadi. yesterday they blasted in with ...

So right now we're hearing a at this point that a large iraqi military force three combat battalions have basically set up on the outsquirts of ramadi and getting ready to launch a ground offensive. that could happen within the next couple hours. we're going into the overnight hours here in the middle east. so we're watching this very closely. if this city continues to be controlled by isis, this would be a major setback for the u.s. coalition efforts and the iraqi military. >> lots on the line. john, thank you so much for that report. just over with years since the boston marathon bombing. ...

Ground in ramadi. heard that three iraqi combat battalions have started to move. they are getting help from u.s. coalition air strikes and pushing isis militants outside of the pefry of the city. isis had raised that ominous black flaggousing suicide attacks and car bombs and targeting iraqi security forces and police forces and government buildings as well. and so at this point, we are waiting to so if that operation the begin. it hasn't happen yet. and we hear that there is movement on the growned. part of the problem though isis cut off the main road leading from ramadi leading from the oas...

Offensive. what we are hearing is that three combat battalions are on the outskirts of ramadi. they are getting ready to launch an offensive to try to retake the city from isis militants. yesterday, isis blasted, essentially blasted its way into ramadi taking the center of the city taking the main government complex in the center of ramadi raising that ominous black flag. isis had already over the past couple weeks taken the northern and eastern parts of the city. so it was significant that they pushed their way in with suicide attacks targeting security forces targeting iraqi police and then ...