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Far more equipped, better equipped than anything that the u.s. military faced. >> and so, mark, you know, while it's mosul right now and isis being on its heels, do you see that potentially syria is next, particularly that de facto capital of raqqah? >> i think ongoing operations are continuing. in fact, i know they are in and around syria for the same kind of preliminary actions that have been occurring over the last few months encircling mosul, the same thing is going on in raqqah. truthfully, fredericka, i believe there's a lot more work to be done inside of iraq. there are pockets of resis...

Years ago, 2014. and you almost never get any good news when it comes to stories about isis. but in this case there is good news. the iraqi prime minister announced yesterday that at least in the eastern part of mosul, east of the tigris, isis has now been cleared out. the military offensive to reclaim mosul started last year. and east of the tigris, they say that mission has succeeded. isis is out. the iraqi government has liberated east mosul. and it absolutely was iraqi forces who retook that city. but american troops are there in pretty big numbers too supporting that fight. u.s. troops, u...

Taken over by isis, that was just stunning to iraq's conception of itself and the threat that isis posed to that country. but isis took mosul almost three years ago, 2014. and you almost never get any good news when it comes to stories about isis. but in this case there is good news. the iraqi prime minister announced yesterday that at least in the eastern part of mosul, east of the tigris, isis has now been cleared out. the military offensive to reclaim mosul started last year. and east of the tigris, they say that mission has succeeded. isis is out. the iraqi government has liberated east mo...

Iraqi forces pushing them further up the river bed in effect. i'm going to go back to where we are now. and this is where they were beginning of the year. >> in the river valleys along the tigris, they've taken back tikrit, now the prize in mosul. along the euphrates baghdad tora ma di is now clear. >> you noted earlier mosul is five times the size of ramadi, so five times as difficult? >> well, it's going to be five times more difficult because not only that the main supply base for the iraqi army, for them to be able to fight up the river valley all the way to mosul on extended logistics lin...

You've spent a lot of time there. i want you to walk us through what's happening. here's the map and this is -- the red is what's under isis control. you see sinjar. the yellow is isis support zone, the orange is isis attack zone. tell us what you see with these tentacles. >> yes, that's a great map, alisyn. it shows you that isis has been occupying areas is lock a logistics supply line to mos. if you draw a direct line of isis to raqqa, it will go through sinjar and telafar. that's how they reinforce mosul with fighters and supplies. in the other areas, what you're talking about is the flow d...