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Now in a renewed eded territorial push, isis militants stand at the gates of this so-called venice of the south. this is what's happened in other towns and territories taken by isis. pillaged hacked and sawed. artifacts standing for thousands of years as testament to man's flights of imagination deemed idolatrous and unislamic by isis. the mosul museum. across iraq and syria in the place of priceless artifacts, isis has left rubble. palmyra recognized as one of the most significant monuments in the middle east. now the u.n. is pleading with the world to find a way to save this symbol of our sh...

Iraq the message is that we're just repeating what the mall lackey administration did wrong, a body is not an improvement ands they goes downhill fast. >> there's a lot of concern, jamie, the secretary of state john kerry insisting he's, quote, absolutely confident the tide will turn against isis in ramadi. is that confidence at least the public bluster, justified? >> it's not justified based on the current alignment of forces that we have facing isis right now. it would be justified if we took a rather modest step forward. the reason the air power can't work is because it can't be coordinated...

Them. i'm confident about the longer road but, yes, there will be moments like yesterday in ramadi and some difficult challenges ahead. >> reporter: iraqi government has complained saying they did not get the air support that they wanted in the battle for ramadi. they are preparing to retake it. it is going to likely be a very bloody battle. as we saw with tikrit we saw that it took longer. christine. >> ian lee for us in cairo. thank you. u.s. officials are assessing a trove of intelligence seized in a special forces raid that killed an isis commander. officials say a dozen commandos

>> i don't know what will happen in the palmyra. i'm very worried. i'm alarmed by what is happening. let's hope that this wonderful monument will not be destroyed like we have seen unfortunately in some of the others, some of the bulldozing and bombing of the sites. >> reporter: across iraq and syria, palmyra and seven other ancient sites and cities are on the u.n.'s cultural agency unesco's danger list. damascus' old town aleppo the list goes on. this in a year where in nepal alone 200 heritage sites were damaged during the recent earthquake. nature of course can't be stopped. whether isis wh...

Something air strikes is going to be able to do. it doesn't work that way. air strikes don't work unless that way until you're willing to take civilian casualties and the u.s. and iraqis are to the. what we have here is exactly what the information says said it didn't think isis was capable of doing, massing a large number of its fighters and going in once again as an offensive military force. that's what happened in ramadi and the big unanswered question is why could the iraqi security if forces not stop them? wolf? >> they did in ramadi what they did in mosul, flee. what's your analysis nick...