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Kilometers, isis will be if successful connecting ramadi and falluja, just outside of baghdad. >> ian, the fighting has sent a fresh wave of tens of thousand of people running for their lives. is there anybody there to help them? as we have seen from arwa damon's reports, there are this stream of people. yesterday she was reporting that the iraqi government closed the bridge, stranding refugees on the other side of the river. unable to make it to baghdad. the iraqi government is afraid that there are isis militants hiding in these refugees trying to infiltrate the other side, the government si...

Ramadi. really they have to stop isis advances to begin with. they are pushing outside of ramadi. they have taken the city of husaba, and they're fighting where there is a sunni tribe that has been royal to the iraqi government, putting up stiff resistance there. then if they are able to take that, then it is off to the region where the shiite militias are forming up, the iraqi security forces have pulled back to there as well. really trying to make a last stand. if isis is able to take that area, it creates a corridor between the two isis controlled cities of ramadi and falluja, from there it...

Care, shelter. and, that's going to be a, put a burden on the iraqi government. but also, they're the people who are left behind as well, the people who remained in ramadi, we know that isis in the past, from other accounts, do not treat the people that they deem as a threat in those cities, they will execute them. they sold women off into slavery. so whenever isis does take an area, humanitarian crisis ensues. >> you know, ian, this week the u.s. state department announced that ramadi was captured last sunday. after isis sent a wave of some 30 vehicle-borne suicide bombs, waves of them. 30 of...

Thousands of people are fleeing iraqi and syrian cities now in the hands of isis. the united nations says close to 25,000 people have left ramadi and headed to baghdad. witnesses say isis militants are executing people there who they think are working with the iraqi government. around 11,000 people are believed to have left the ancient syrian city of palmyra. the syrian observatory for human rights estimates that isis now controls half of syria. i want to bring in ian lee for more on this story. he is joining us live from cairo, egypt. ian, good to see you. now, it seems isis has captured some...

Leadership including our military power is stopping isil's advance. >> reporter: president obama says the u.s. isn't losing to isis. but senior u.s. military officials privately acknowledge the terror group's takeever of ramadi is showing a key flaw the pentagon had long worried about. air strikes alone can't defeat isis. unless iraqi forces step up and fight. and in ramadi, that did not happen. and there could be political fallout. >> they have had now a fairly serious defeat in ramadi for which the prime minister and defense minister are taking the blame. this was not a particularly stable g...