Epic Final Battle News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The city's fall to isis in may, an embarrassing defeat that had defense secretary carter questioning their resolve. >> they failed to fight. they withdrew from the site. >> reporter: week ago, carter urged iraq's prime minister to move north toward mosul. iraq's second-largest city where isis leader abu bakr al baghdadh proclaimed the caliphate more than a year ago. >> we do want to help you build on your success in ramadi, to move toward mosul. >> reporter: after a recent string of defeats, north of baghdad, and sinjar mountain, al baghdadi warned in a new recording that despite the setbacks,...

Towards mosul. >> reporter: north of baghdad and sinjar mountain where the fight against isis began, b bagdadi says isis remains strong promising an epic final battle. today iraqi prime minister tweeted what he called complete confidence iraqis are going to liberate mosul but spokesman says first the iraqis have a lot of work to retake and secure the province but mosul is considered the big prize in freeing iraq, brianna and from isis and the coalition says it's determineed to help the iraqis do that. >> it will obviously take some time. we'll see what pans out. thank you so much. the white ...

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...