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Beginning to show progress. it's starting to take hold. >> our sources on the ground saying there was more air power, more coalition strikes today as you're trying to route out the seven and eight-man teams within the city. are you worried about an insurgency, are you worried about having trouble holding on to that city. >> there are pockets of resistance, maybe they have an rpg, a machine gun. maybe they can plan an ied, a roadside bomb. we don't know assess this enemy has enough strength left to knock the iraqi army out of its positions in ramadi. again, the enemy always has the opportunity ...

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To the ongoing operations against isis all across northern iraq and in syria? give us a sense of that reading first. >> i think it is going to be absolutely important in the strategy to retake the rest of the territory that isis has already captured. ramadi, if the iraqi army lib rates ramadi, they'll be able to go to other places north, west and south of ramadi to areas that actually are controlled by isis and they will be able to go all the way to western anbar to liberate a major supply route for isis between iraq and syria. but i think we have to take this with a grain of salt and just wai...

The city. it's going to be very difficult and it's going to be a very slow process for the iraqis to slowly, methodically and carefully clear their way through the city. >> sensitivities are being handled delicately. the fighters don't include any iranian backed shia militia in this part of the sunni heartland, according to the u.s. the u.s. already helping air strike plan for a sunni-led force to hold the city if it is taken back my iraqis. hundreds of sunni tribal fighters have been trained by the u.s. the u.s. military anxious to show success of its anti-isis strategy. >> we've begun a trai...

Of possible threats against westerner ins in a shopping district on or around christmas. that is from the american and british embassies in beijing. iraqi forces say they're less than 2 kilometers from the government compound in the city of ramadi. pentagon correspondent, barbara star has more. >> reporter: iraqi troops roll across a fleeting bridge opening a path toward central ramadi. heavy gunfire continues to ring out. iraqi armored vehicles on the move, fighting street to street. the entire area is mined and bobby trapped by isis. entire houses wired to blow up. tough work for iraqi tro...