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Things like the brigades which help run the civil affairs inside some of the areas that isis controls. these are all not major roles in terms of the fight but they are important roles and the women are being told you know you will be part of this. >> paul how are they getting -- back to this widow being questioned and giving up information and her husband was high up there and from everything i've read the wife ranking sort of corresponds with the husband's ranking within isis. how are they getting her to talk? what's the incentive for her? >> we don't know the details of how they are getting ...

Propaganda machine has not been destroyed by any coalition effort. understanding how we have to take it down both physically as well as from a project cal point of view is going to be key. the threat that was just announced by the united states government for the fourth of july weekend and the heightened alert is systematic of what we see coming out of isis. calling on individuals to find ways to attack the united states, france and other countries that are participating in the coalition even if they can not join isis in the territory that isis controls. destroying isis' control over its terri...

Correspondent nick paton walsh has the latest from baghdad. >> reporter: at this stage, they are working out the rhetoric of 48 hours ago, the launched operation to liberate anbar is translating to the ground. mixed reaction to the forces. 30 iraqis lost their lives to a number of car bombs near fallujah near anbar, but close to baghdad where i'm standing, it is one of two centers that isis controls. iraqi security forces got to the outskirts of ramadi near anbar university. they are saying they are forming a semi circle around the south. all complex operations ahead. we saw ourselves near the...

Fallujah. they have been receiving in reinforcements. but the battle for ramadi is not going to be anything like the battle for tikrit. the lay of the land is very different. the dynamics in al anbar province are more complex. moving reinforcements out to those various different front lines is much more difficult as well because of the territory that isis controls in al anbar province. how long the units that are fighting along the front lines around ramadi are going to be able to hold out without additional reinforcements, that also remains to be seen. we're seeing the iraqi government callin...

Slog. when you look at it overall we have shrunk the amount of territory in iraq that isis controls. that's positive. but yet at the same time we're way far away from any kind of a retaking of mosul. and now we've got to retake ramadi. and the challenges are extraordinary. but i don't think that means we can back away from a commitment to the iraqi government and helping to arm these sunni tribes to combat the scourge. >> do you think this prime minister real slay good guy, the haider abadi that took over for nuri al maliki? >> i think abadi. the question is whether he has the capability, the ...