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Bombings. and then event really isis was able to sweep through the city forcing out all of the iraqi security forces. now, the iraqi government is trying to beef up out presence of its own fighting forces in an area at a military base there. and they're also as you're mentioning sending in more of these paramilitary shia units. as well as saying that they are trying to escalate their attempts to arm the sunni tribes all of which, of course further complicates what is already a complicated landscape. because this fighting for us at the end of the day is not necessarily cohesive. it does not nec...

At the time al qaeda in iraq. but that was u.s. forces fighting on the ground. and also with the sunni tribes fighting alongside them the u.s. was able to recruit these thrives in the fight against al qaeda. now, a much more difficult situation. many of these tribes reluctant because of mistrust issues with the shia-led government. and they say that they've heard these promises for months now to arm them. and they haven't really seen that materialize. very long and tough battle ahead to try and regain control of ramadi christine. >> thank you so much for that jomana karadsheh for us this morni...

Hopefully, that app and that phone will help. turning to iraq where isis capitalizing on the capture city of key city of ramadi a government held town of khalidiya. iraqis moved to counter the threat by sending more shiite militia fighters into the largest sunni anbar province. local officials in ramadi before it fell they say the shiite-dominated central government failed to keep earlier promises to send enough support and weapons. cnn's jomana karadsheh following the latest developments for us. jomana. >> christine, as you mentioned, iraqi officials say that isis after it tightened its gri...

Weekend a, quote, setback, officials say they are not conducting a formal review of the strategy for defeating isis but aide to the president say they are looking at options for supporting what they're calling an iraqi-led mission to retake ramadi. pressed repeatedly on the mounting bipartisan criticism of the president's strategy white house press secretary josh earnest lashed out at all the second guessing. here's what he had to say. >> thing is we have to decide what the approach to the issues is going to be. are we going to light our hair on fire every time there's a setback in the campaig...

In the city of khalidiya east of ramadi. the government now sending shiite militia fighters into anbar province at the same time they're promising to arm sunni tribesmen. the local officials in ramadi as it was falling say the shiite-dominated government has failed to send enough support and weapons. our cnn international correspondent arwa damon following the latest developments for us. good morning, arwa. >> reporter: good morning, and that called for assistance. military assitance when it comes to trying to prevent the fall of ramadi began as far back as november john if not before. those w...