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Country, who's never, ever gotten involved in politics before, but is now. so they seem to be blunting the advance. while they say this is not a sectarian battle, that the shias are brothers with the sunnis, that is what's happening, and the country is dividing along these, along the shia/sunni sectarian fault lines. it still has a long wray to go yet, but it's hard to say at this time how it can be reversed. i talked with a sunni tribesman backing isis. he doesn't share they're radical islamic views. he wants a government of national unity. he's angry with nuri al maliki. this is how he expla...

A man who calls himself basal and a doctor causes, collecting his thoughts. so, talk, answer quickly. are you cooking up lies, shouts the other. vis video is one of eight interrogations obtained by cnn from syrian operationists. speaking with distinct iraqi accents and asking about what's going on in a town northeast of alep aleppo. from the questions it's clear they're not with the president, bashar al assad but rather with isis, the iz loomic state of iraq and syria. it's not clear what happened to these men, but another chilling video will show you later may be a clue. early last year, isis...

To hear your reaction on the other end. >> translator: they believed this was the beginning of the end. but we say this is the beginning of their end. their defeat. because it sparked a passion and determination in all soldiers and officers in and in all iraqi people. iraqis came in thousands. we were unable to mobilize all the people who volunteerrd and wanted to confront this evil organization, which is pushed by foreign forces that do not want good to iraq. >> so maliki sounding very confident there. shouldn't iraq's army be able to take advantage of this isis, which is only comprised of a ...

Home. authorities are racing to evacuate many of them already. alexandra field joining us now from new york. how dire, how desperate is the situation? >> reporter: look, fred, the state department is clearly keeping a very close eye on the deteriorating situation there. they're concerned about security of americans still in that country, but at this point what the state department tells us is that it has not changed its staffing at the embassy or the consulates. the area we are focused now is balad, where evacuations of u.s. contractors continue to happen. those evacuations are led by the comp...

Town from the syrian border south. you can see them there close to baghdad. as well iraq's second largest city has fallen to the group as we've been reporting all week, and, yeah, the capital not far away. iraq on a major military recruiting drive this weekend. not just the government recruiting either. militias are recruiting. they all need people, lots of them, to quickly pump up the number of those who can hold a weapon and potentially fight. the prime minister said thousands of iraqis have stepped up to serve. the u.s. president, obama, making it very clear that whatever happens in iraq, n...