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To isis complicates the efforts to defeat the terrorist group. ramadi is about 70 miles or so west of baghdad as the capital of iraq's hugely important anbar province. the loss of the city raising strategic and political concerns. let's get more analysis. joining us the former assistant secretary of state james rubin and former democratic congresswoman jane harman, for scholars here in washington. how much of a setback, jane is this the loss of isis the loss of ramadi to isis right now? >> i think it's political terms what i assume you're asking me is a big deal and i can't imagine if i were a...

I think this is good because at the end of the day, the iraqis not about sunni and shia iraqi nationalists and right now they have a common enemy and they want to defeat daesh, isis in al anbar. >> final question to you, on the u.s. delta force operation, the special operations force that went into syria and killed abu sayyaf described as the chief financial officer of isis how big of a deal do you believe this is? >> well it's, you know a mid-sized deal i guess. i mean the individual will be replace replaced, of course, but on one side a lot of documentation has been obtained in the raid. we'...

Can go back in there and really bomb them hard with air strikes and allow the iraqis to get re-set and go back in and grab that terrain. >> the isis fighters who have now taken over ramadi just as they took over last year mosul, the second largest city in iraq a city of 2 million people not only will they collect all the weapons that the iraqi military abandoned including armored personnel carriers artillery, tanks, a lot of sophisticated weaponry that the iraqi military like they did in mosul, now they did in ramadi abandon, what will they do? do these isis fighters have the capability to tak...

This is what's happened in other towns and territories taken by isis, pillaged, hacked and sold. artifacts standing for thousands of years as testament to man's flights of imagination deemed unislamic by isis. the winged gods 900 bc, the muslim museum across iraq and syria in the place of priceless art ifacts, iceless has left rubble as the world stood helpless. palmyra recognized by the united nations as one of the most significant monuments in the middle east now the u.n. is pleading with the world to find a way to save this symbol of our shared past. >> i don't know what will happen in palm...

P p palmira and killing as it goes. militants executed 23 family members of syrian government officials in a village nearby. the london-based syrian observatory for human rights sayshe murdered were children. there are concerns it will bulldoze the world heritage site as it has done to so many others throughout iraq and syria. this dates back 2,000 years. nema l bagr has why it is so important. >> reporter: for 2,000 years its column answer temples loomed over the oasis at the heart of syria, a crossroots of roman, greek, persian and babylonian influences now in a renewed territorial push isis...