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Major isis strong hold now for more than two years. our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is embedded with iraqi forces on the front line. reporter: the last phase of lifting isis dark curse from iraq begins here. trying to hit a spectral fleeting enemy, lit only by the glow of mosul s city limits. barely two kilometers away. iraqi special forces trained by the u.s. target with a tank here. where they are attacked from during the day. telling us to use humvees as cover when they move. their commander, major salam, has fought isis in fallujah, ramadi, and now the end is near. where did the artillery land, he asks. ....
Just visible in the distant lights of mosul. this is the global tip of the spear in the war on isis. surging forwards on a thin strip of land into isis territory. and as we see in the same area in daylight, facing constant counterattacks. here, they can see isis just beyond the berms. the incoming is from behind it. a truck that pops up. opens fire and vanishes. isis less than a kilometer away, firing at iraqi special forces position. this is a constant day in, day out. where s it moving? he asks. ....
Isis, despite being in their end days, still able to conjure the terror that began their savage rule. the wounded start coming back, but we cannot film them. a steady stream. the unit we were with earlier on the roof have been hit. rockets struck. many of them asleep. tightly packed in a room. the blast killed 14 soldiers. many limbs torn clean off. major salam is shown the weapons of the dead. he pauses in emotion. you guys are heroes, he says and none of you should be affected by this. those suicide bombers are nothing. two kilometers from mosul city, and seven left to the center to go. nick paton walsh, cnn, near mosul. ....
Damage there was to the plane until he got out of there, so lot of scary moments there. very terrifying moments for those people on board. no doubt about it. the plane had come from london. had that happened any later oh, sure. it could have been catastrophic. no doubt about it. nick valencia, thank you so much. iraqi troops say they re making some problem in the fight against isis near mosul, but that progress may come at a price as isis rounds up thousands of innocent civilians. the gop ceasing on new details in this clinton e-mail scandal, banding together against the democratic party and praising the fbi. will this in some way bring the republican party together and stop the infighting? we ll see. let s talk about it. (vo) maybe it was here, when you hit 300,000 miles. or here, when you walked away without a scratch. ....
We can pull it up if we have it at the ready, but it looked like there was a group of people who were escaping either from isis, from mosul, from one of these towns, but they were walking through the desert, here they are. some of them holding just children, little, little children here. if we continue to look at this, there s a moment when they meet two gentlemen and one of the men who was running just falls on his knees. help us understand the people who are trying to escape this area, what help do they have? where are they going? here it is. this is a point where this gentlemen looks like he s going to fall on his knees here. go ahead, michael. i m sorry. i wanted to let our viewers know what they were seeing. i know the video you re talking about. emotional stuff, isn t it? very few people i ve got to point that out and emphasize that, very few people are getting out of mosul itself, but as iraqi and kurdish forces have been going from town to village to town to village, a lot ....