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Into the center. the iraqi forces have been fighting for weeks to prevent this overrunning. were unable to hold back. now in a troubling moment where the government appealed to shi'a militia to come in and try to push isis back. reports that iran's defense minister has flown into baghdad. perhaps to try to offer assistance iran can offer here. the issue is also how long advertised this potential issue has been because the fight has been going for a long period of time. there have not been adequate resources. we are hearing about 500 people may have lost their lives in the fight alone. thousand...

They used heavy machinery to push across blocks in the way. the t-walls that blocked access. pushed their way through. raised a flag over the headquarters there. the police headquarters and also a key mosque as well and intense clashes ongoing. reports now that u.s. jets, coalition warplanes have been brought in to try to hold them back along with iraqi government helicopters. as we've seen before, it is hard to push isis back when they are making these particular territorial moves. a real upset in the narrative that the government was trying to push which is anbar will be next and that sunni ...

>> and that is coming from a u.s. official based in d.c. and it is in stark contrast to what we're hearing from people that are actually on the ground in ramadi. we've been talking to local officials, local commanders. throughout the night into today, isis was steadily advancing towards the city center launching an attack on the government complex that iraqi security forces were able to repel for the time being. then finally in the afternoon, those much-needed air strikes began targeting isis positions inside ramadi as well as on the outskirts of the city. but they need so many more troops to ...

Very angry, very frustrated because he says he had been warning the iraqi government asking for additional support in the form of troops more boots on the ground to help the fighters already in the city get ready to try to push isis back. but also because he and others have been requesting for quite some time now additional iraqi air force air strikes and coalition air strikes on isis positions before they were even able to breach the city. entering this morning from the east in something of a surprise attack that sent according to the official, 150,000 people fleeing. we saw some of those ind...

The streets down to the bone. we head to the front line where daily, isis hoped to advance. a kurdish female fighter, this unit's commander. the coalition air power did this pushing isis back. they abandoned their dead as they retreat. the decaying smell haunts these front lines. some call it kobanigrad, they are 20 meters from isis. they see something in the rubble.