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This is in some many ways a predominantly shia town, with shia government in it, i think those fleeing ramadi and anbar don t feel that comfortable as they get here. some find the space, and when you drive north towards tikrit, it s amazing how people are able to live in those areas, that have been contested now for months. and it s an extraordinary difficult journey to bring yourself back to baghdad and then find a place to live in. this has been more than a decade now. people i think have become accustomed to that sense of dislocation. senior international correspondent nick paton walsh live in baghdad. nick, we appreciate your reporting on an the ground. the german navy has rescued nearly 900 migrants off the coast libya. many of the refugees including 27 children were found aboard ....
They are considered the lucky ones able to get out from isis grip. these are people who need food, water, health care and shelter, as we ve seen from arwa damon s report, it has been a very difficult trek to flee ramadi, trying to get to safe territory, trying to get to government-controlled territory, trying to get to baghdad. we saw in her report as well, that the government has closed the bridge to fleeing refugees. the government hasn t given a reason why that bridge was closed. but people are very scared, trapped on the other side, trying get out of the way of isis advance. and these are people who are fleeing with their children, with elderly, with really a humanitarian crisis there, george. so people are on the run. isis is on the move. and they re moving at a relentless and brutal pace. they are in fact using a string of suicide car bombs to ....
Start in iraq where it is midmorning this hour, and thousands of people have been fleeing their homes trying to get away from isis. the terror group captured the city of ramadi in iraq and a small town in the east. militants are slowly pushingthy way towards the city of baghdad. 25,000 people have fled from the militants. the ancient see of palmyra now in the hands of isis. 11,000 refugees forced to run. a human rights group now says isis now controls more than half of syria. a look at this map shows the scope of what s happened. you see the areas there controlled by isis on january 15th. take a look at the same map now as of friday, you can see the isis-controlled areas in red have grown. the iraqi ambassador to the u.s. says isis has to be stopped and the world needs to help. isis is an entity which we ....
Continues their advance. we ve heard talks trying to recapture ramadi. well, they have to stop isis advance. and they are right now in the process of trying to take the corridor between the two isis-controlled cities of ramadi and fallujah. if they re able to take that. and then the next step is baghdad. trying to push forward to baghdad, as isis has said in one of their videos, that is their neck objective. ian lee reporting, thank you. as tens of thousands of people flee the wrath of isis many others are unable to get away. our cnn international correspondent arwa damon takes us to a live-saving bridge for refugees that was suddenly closed. reporter: the other side of the river is barely visible from the stand storm kicked up by the beating relentless winds. this bridge is the only safe passage from anbar province. ....
Basically break the perimeters and take over these towns. what more you can tell us, ian, about those methods, and are authorities able to stop this? reporter: well, that s been a very successful tactic of isis, in their campaigns are using these very heavily armored vehicles, bull dozers, trucks, packing them with explosives and then driving them right at the front lines of the iraqi military, or in northern iraq against kurdish forces. and they have been able to blow them up, create chaos, go after them, and push back iraqi forces, now, there were tens of these attacks when they finally were able to take ramadi. it s been described as mad max-tile of attacks. the united states has recognized this, they ve sent anti-tank missiles to help the iraqi forces to stop these sorts of attacks. but as we speak, isis still ....