how endanger sudden baghdad now? >> i don't think -- endangered is baghdad now is. >> i don't think baghdad is militarily threatened. it's too big. i agree the iraqis will sustain it. mosul, i served over a year in mosul. i know how large it is, that -- that's a bridge too far right now for the iraqi security forces. i agree with admiral fallon. anbar is the place right now to demonstrate to the iraqi security forces, the regional partners that this is not an invincible foe. they and must be stopped. >> general clark, you served in vietnam, right? >> i did. >> do you remember when saigon was too big to fall? >> i do. >> what happened? >> it femp i remember when the french said if they would just make a stand that the vietmen would go away in 1954. i think it's a good thing to get winds. we had a win in tikrit and erbil. somehow they've turned the moment up and kept it going. isis has. we've got to fight against the idea. we know we have to bring the sunni tribes into this. somehow we've got to get the iraqis back on

in baghdad. iraq it seems is fighting back against the cultural tyranny. these are rare but the everything. >> the proper -- 100. >> it was very hard to put on we had no money from the government or the ministry of culture can because of the budget deficit. we reached out to the community, and they funded this whole thing. it took us four months to secure the funding but everyone has been so generous. the message has cap can churred the family whose have risked the security situation to be here. >> i came with my family because i want withed to show the terrorists they have not won. the blood spit has not been in vain, we sup is port them. >> a musical dominated the opening night the theme is patriotic. system broughting those who are fighting, no sectarianism is visible here. >> more by design than accident the three main groups of iorack, sunni, and curd are represented here. as well as iraq's minorities both on stage in the audience. tonight is a celebration of the rich cultural heritage and a homage to those people who are fighting isil. what it isn't

heading east out of el anbar it's the gateway to baghdad and others. headed west, it's the means by which daesh's resupply and sustainment are recovered from the syrian border. and unlike his predecessor prime minister abadi believes in functioning federalism. until decentralization of authorities to the provinces thinker so through the central government of iraq a strong government is under way to arm the tribe to his provide resauces andresouthsources and empower anbar. we also want to support the decisions of the legitimate local leadership in anbar the provincial council who working directly with their governor i and the prime minister in the central government, have decided to permit the deployment of popular mobilization forces in to the province for the purposes of supporting the security operations that will be necessary to recover ramadi and ultimately remember late the province these any leaders do not view in from is a sectarian prism and understand the they can play a vital role against daesh. indeed men of the pmf fighters are not shia har

first of all, this government in baghdad, they hate the kurds. and also his comment to a caller named marie about the president -- the generals don't run the war, the president runs the war. no, here is the deal. the president is not listening to his generals. the president is ignoring his generals. generals are giving him recommendations and he doesn't like them because the school is never -- his goal is never, ever to escalate. i don't want to see that either. he sure is reaching that goal. host: all right, janice. guest: so, i don't think there is any evidence that the generals in the field have recommended the massive deployment of new american ground troops to the middle east. i frankly think the generals who were around for the iraq war understand that -- -- well, for the time that our troops are sitting on top of an insurgency, they can increased ability. that that is not a long-term solution. and so you have secretary gates, who presided over the surge and a good part of the iraq war, saying on his way out that any president who ever agai

any more unfortunately after 2003 baghdad split into sunni and shia sections with almost no existence of mixed sections at all. >> reporter: those words are echoed by people who study the demographic changes and notice the sunnis have been marginalized but what is of concern to one academic is impact of sectarianism on future generations. >> especially the kids and when they leave and wake up and open their eyes in the heating of the killing, i think as you know the subconscious foundation that is from five to seven and in that period many kids are robbed of that feeling. i think the future we will face a real problem from that. >> reporter: there are still mixed neighborhoods across baghdad like this one but there are normally more economically well off. now, this neighborhood in particular has been hit by several i.s.i.l. car bombs and the reason they do that is to try and keep up the sectarian tension but it's not just i.s.i.l. also the shia groups mount revenge attacks and now many people are worried because of those two reasons that iraq might see a return to the kind of levels o

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why many in baghdad shia are afraid to leave their homes in an increasingly divided city. >>> pakistan said that it's ready to throw out more foreign aid groups after expelling save the children. >> what they have done is stop the boats. >> australia's prime minister refuses to deny reports that the navy paid people smugglers to return to indonesia. >> but first there are deep concerns for the welfare of ten people taken hostage from tunisia's consulate in libya. all thought to be members. they'll all meet to try to deal with the crisis. it's describing the incident as a blatant attack on tunisian national sovereignty and flagrant violation of international laws. the prime minister said that he's keeping a close eye on the situation. >> we're closely following the kidnapping of some tunisians. a crisis committee has been form and they're trying to look closely into the events. the outcome of the investigation will be announced in due course. >> al jazeera has this update from tunis. >> well, we understand that the foreign ministry as well as the defense ministry and other important mem

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and the reality is we can help them, but there has to be support coming out of baghdad. and that is what is really lacking. >> admiral, i don't disagree. but when you look at this emerging caliphate. >> if you are in iraq and in syria. and they are ambitious. they want more. >> the key is this is intergenerational. and there can be a lot of things done as to what the the general's point, and we tend to have a discussion of what is what can we do now. >> there is no immediate. these guys are getting support from around the world. >> which guys? >> isis? >> and why? >> they are on a role. the impression is they are tough guys and look at all of these gory things, they are greet recruiting tools. they get bunked on the head a couple of times, i think that will back away. so go back to 2007 in iraq, al qaeda was on a role. >> that was the surge. >> and then things happen. what happened behind the espns? it wasn't just the surge, it was what we were doing and the reality that the support that they got, tacitly or otherwise, went away. >> the u.s. was buying off the sunni trib

ambassador of baghdad, his position was essentially that it's up to the iraqis. it's not for us to influence. it's not about us influencing it or sovereign iraq state. it's about either us influencing iraqi politics or iran influencing iraqi p politics. and it concerns me as q%3áwell, frankly, mr. chairman when you say you don't know what the administration's long-term plan is. if we don't know what the long-term plan is then i'm not sure it's worth putting these troops at risk in iraq today. at a personal level the most frustrating part of going back to iraq in february was seeing so much of what we had fought for and achieved during the surge really gone to waste. i want to make sure that we do have a long-term enduring political plan so that whatever effort is made by these 450 and others on the ground in iraq today, it doesn't go to waste and we don't find ourselves sending troops back again five years from now. >> i just want to make sure because i didn't -- i didn't intend to imply i don't know what the administration's plans. i think we've tried to lay th

they are not just in baghdad. they are around the country but the job they're doing is to build this capable and motivated ground force that gets as you say we can leverage and we will revisit or visit that question when we have a ground force to enable them. >> let me make sure i understand the fear positions. if former iraqi forces -- if forward iraqi forces are in contact with isis or any elements, and close air support would be effective in terms of influence in that battle, influencing the battlefield, shaping the battlefield then in fact he would support u.s. military personnel forward with a back units in the forward air controllers? >> we will take that one for the record congressman. >> thank you. mr. moulton? >> thank you, mr. chairman. gentlemen, thank you both for your service ever been you. general dempsey, when i walked into the office in baghdad as a lieutenant and to try to figure out how a lieutenant was supposed to report to a three-star come you proved to me that you're not only a great national

the islamic state fighters have even gotten closer to baghdad. they're on the rim of baghdad. there's been a couple reported clashes there. so they're clearly on the move. and the moderates all across syria and of course the sunnis are not doing well. there's no support for this. and, yes, we are failing in the middle east. >> isis is dictating the terms here, especially in the battle for iraq. and there's this talk of arming, you know, the sunnis within iraq because the shiite-led government in baghdad isn't going to do it. is that a bad idea for the u.s. to directly arm the sunni tribes? >> i think we would like to be able to arm the sunnis, but the sunnis that remained in ramadi and the other major places will not meet with the americans at this point, they're too scared. so how do we even get arms to them? i don't think they're ready to fight. the sunni tribes we're talking to in baghdad are beholden to a shia government, they've lost credibility. we have to not forget there's no political framework for a settlement in iraq. and by the way, should we expect the shia army t

>>> this week on the journal editorial report as isis tries to liberate baghdad the white house orders 450 more advisers to iraq but is it enough to stop them? >>> an already strained relationship just got a little more tense as president obama criticizes the supreme court again. is there a strategy behind the scolding and will it work? >>> and ge threatens to call it quits in connecticut after one too many tax increases. will other blue state governors take heed? >>> welcome to "the journal editorial report." just days after saying that the u.s. did not yet have a complete strategy for fighting isis president obama wednesday ordered an additional 450 u.s. military advisers to join the more than 3,000 already in iraq. the move comes as militants continue their advance on baghdad, vowing in a new propaganda video to, quote, liberate the iraqi capital soon, so is the administration's latest escalation really an escalation at all and will it make a difference in the fight against the islamic state? let's ask "wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor dan heninger and columnist and

worked out a deal of what baghdad does liberate land from i.s.i.l. they will take care of it in cooperation with the government. and what did the government do? sent out shia malitias and under the slogan basically a very shia anti-sunni slogan and at the end of the day the sunni tribes feel they are unarmed, exposed and squeezed and if they come to take revenge of them and if i.s.i.l. comes to rule them with blood and fire if you will so it's a very sad and very depressing situation for these tribes. >> and the iraq government accused of not having political reforms fast enough what is this going to mean now for the fight against i.s.i.l.? >> tribes in general and iraq and elsewhere historical speaking anthropology speaking if you will have an instinct for survival and i think this kind of an event that we saw just now it shows us that they look at political and security map in iraq and they are saying it's not what american officials are saying they are not winning, it's i.s.i.l. that has the upper hand it's i.s.i.l. that is expanding, the central

fighters will infiltrate baghdad, just ten kilometers from here. to get to baghdad those escaping anbar need someone in the capitol to vouch for them and controls 80% of anbar including almost all of the border corrosioning and almost all highways and this small bridge has become a lifeline between anbar and the rest of the country and the only way out for many families trying to escape the expected fighting. for security reasons cars and trucks are not allowed to cross the bridge without special permission. this crossing on the river is the only route left to eastern anbar, everything comes across by cart. and he had to leave his cart behind but lost so much more than that. their tent collapsed two months ago killing his young daughter. >> translator: a stone came up at 10:30 at night and we felt the bars of the tent falling down on us and there were six of us and four of us survived and one died and another one had a broke end spine and broken hip. >> reporter: some say it's easier to settle in kurdish region than baghdad and some will try their

just west of baghdad 2 iraqi soldiers were killed in an attack. in samarra they say they've killed 55 isil fighters. we have reports from baghdad. >> the aftermath of an attack at the air base anbar province. the battle for this iraqi outpost is filmed by isil fighters. it those that their advance for ramadi is not slowing down. >> the mounting losses here suggest they're right. at least 22 people have been killed. most of them are iraqi soldiers and shia militias who have fled ramadi. the u.s. carrying out airstrikes to help the iraqis say even sow the strategy won't change. and so the plan continues to the west of samarra it's military commanders call this a second phase. backed by airstrikes, they continue to regain control of pockets of terrain. >> we reached the more strategically pocket of terrorists. i saw intense presence of terrorists. we seized a total control of the air we're standing in. we have now secured the area of provide a security for the residence. we'll be backed up by army jet fighters. it was a surprise by the terrorists tha

>>reporter: there are still mixed neighborhoods across baghdad like this one. but they're normally more economically well off. now, this neighborhood in particular has been hit by several isil car bombs, and the reason they do that is to try to keep up the sectarian tension. but it's not just isil. also the shia groups mount revenge attacks. many worry iraq will return to the violence it saw beginning in 2006. >>> a sit in has brought the multi multibillion dollar phosphate industry to a stand still in liberia. >>reporter: they've waited for change for many years. that protest is peaceful but effective. blocking the tracks so trains can't transport phosphate out of the region. >> we've reached a situation where everything is closed. i'm unemployed five years. some are disabled. some sleep in tents because there's nowhere to go. >>reporter: unemployed people like this are all around tunisia. many have never had a day's paid work in their life. this is a region which has a profitable mining which is the difference. but the wealth is not being invested here. peopl

baghdad is a brokencity. it's a whoel whole new war out there. isis rolls on. the new enemy in a war-weary country, and the iraqi army keeps retreating fleeing from isis first in mosul last year in ramadi last month. so now, it's these guys, shia religious militias fuelled by faith and backed by iran who rushed in to the breach. we're here to get a look at this new battle for iraq. we're taking the armored vehicles and going out to anbar province. that's almost totally dominated by isis. we're going to meet up with the shia militia that are so crucial on the battlefield. they, not the iraqi army, are the front line troops against isis now. on the road an iraqi army helicopter buzzes our convoy an old russian-made tank rumbles by. and the most powerful militia of the shia forces. given this these guys are ready for a fight but we found out they don't want to just fight isis. >> if obama sends more american soldiers here will you fight the americans, too? we will fight isis and the americans this man shouts. >> you see their enthusiasm. you see their dedication t

q.there are still mixed neighborhoods across baghdad and, they are more well off. now, this neighborhood, in particular has been hit by several car bombs, and the reason they do that is, to keep the tension and it's not just isil, and the she a groups, and revenge attacks, and many people worry because of those two reasons that, iraq might see a return to the kind of level of sectarian violence, when it was nearly plunged into civil war. >>> the remains of the former deputy prime minister, are still at the airport the head of a flight to jordan, it is being guarded closely after reports that it was snatched, before being loaded onto an airline. it says it was delayed by lack of official documentation. >>> these talks between yemen and, the warring facts are set to begin, and they won't come face-to-face. inside the country it killed six people, and the area is listed as a world heritage site, and it destroyed three houses belonging to one family. >>> the criminal pilot targeting unarmed citizens, and they say they are targeting military base where are they, we will

when saadam invaded kuwait in 1990 he was a stanch defender in the media of baghdad's position. he surrendered in 2003 and was sentenced to death in 2009, although the penalty was never carried out. >> reporter: for many he was the best-known face of saddam hussein's regime. traveling the globe, meeting world leaders, he defended his boss's policies at every turn. he deflected blame. >> translator: according to the information i have it was the iranians who bombed the area with the chemical weapons, it wasn't iraq. >> reporter: he came to the party in the 1950s. by the time they came to power in iraq the former english teacher was already a prominent figure. he was named information minister. in the early 1980s, he became foreign minister tasked with strengthening diplomatic relations between baghdad and washington. >> reporter: but when saadam ordered the invasion of kuwait in 1990 he has to face the world and condemned arab leaders for not standing up to the u.s. the u.s. responded to the invasion by declaring war on iraq. for iraq the results were devastated. aziz's loyally w

they are not just in baghdad. they're around the country. but the job they're doing is tov build this capable and motivated gone force that we can then leverage. we will revisit that? we have background forced to enable them. >> let me make sure i understand both of your positions. if forward iraqi forces are in contact with isis or enemy elements, then -- and close air support would be effective in terms of influencing that battle, influencing the battlefield, shaping the battlefield, then you would support u.s. military personnel forward with iraqi units in the form of say forward air , controllers? >> we'll take that one for the record, congressman. >> mr. moulton? >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you both for your service and i welcome you here. general dempsey, when i walked into your office in baghdad as a lieutenant and you tried to figure out how a lieutenant was supposed to report to a three-star, you proved to me that you are not only a great national leader as you have demonstrated for the entire country but you're also a very ,

a city less than 50 miles from iraq's capital baghdad. witnesses tell cnn that at least 31 people were killed in the last three days of ground and air assaults. and with some 100,000 civilians still trapped inside the war-torn city, sunni tribes are pleading for america's help fearing they can't defeat the extremists with their cheap weapons and volunteer army. cnn's nick paton walsh live in baghdad for us. >> near fallujah held by isis the center of the current government advance against them. so much lives being lost there, so much bloodshed. but at the same time the southwest of that key city there are sunni tribesmen, isis are also sunnis but these are moderates who oppose them struggling to get the weapons they need to hold isis off. >> the sandbags exactly what iraq needs to stay to the as a country. meters away you can glimpse the flag of isis extremists from iraq's sunni minority. but holding them off here the men the u.s. says are key to victory. moderate iraqi sunnis who will die to rid their hometown of isis. >> if america is t

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charles krauthammer says baghdad is their prize. >> baghdad is being surrounded by ryeisis. if you were i significant you're not going to win it or hold it. but if you can penetrate the green zone you penetrate the u.s. embassy, kill americans, hoist the black flag over the american embassy even for just a day, you will have struck a blow against the united states that will be incalculable. >> i can understand how president feels like he doesn't have any good options here partly maybe even if they don't want to suggest or admit that there are decisions led to what we are currently dealing with. but he is risk averse. he wants to be able to solve this problem without any risk to american personnel. i just don't think that's possible. >> you can't win any battle sporting event, argument without taking some risk. and you're right. think about what he did when he drew the red line with syria. if syria uses chemical weapons on their own people we will take bashar al assad out. proof was they did. he ignored his red line. everything he's promised he's had to backpedal. what he's d

after 2003, baghdad split into sunni and shia sections with no existence of mixed sections at all. those words were echoed. the as soon as possibles have been increasingly marginalized, but what's have concern to one academic is the sectarian. >> on future generations. >> on the kids, where they live and wake up and open their eyes and the violence and the hating and the killing. i think the subconscious, from five to seven many kids draw that feeling -- i think in the future, we will face a real problem from that kids. >> there are neighborhoods across baghdad like this one but they are normally more economically well off. this neighborhood has been hit by several isil car bombs. they try to keep up the sectarian tension. the shia groups mount revenge attacks. many are worried that iraq might see a return to the kind of levels of sectarian violence in 2006 2007, 2008 when this country was nearly plunged into civil war. >> a student brought the multi-billion dollars phosphate mining industry to a standstill, saying they've had enough of years of poverty and pollution. we have this

unfortunately after 2003, baghdad split into sunni and shia sections. with almost no existence of mixed sections at all. >> those words are echoed by people who study the capital's demographic changes. they've noticed that the sunnis have been increasingly marginalized but what's distinct is the children. >> the kids when they wake up and open their eyes at the heatingheating and the killing. in their subconscious foundation, from five to seven in that period, many kids, they drop and that's feeling and that's i think in the future we will face a real problem from that kids. >> there is a mixed neighborhood every once that while but they are more economically well off. this community has been hit by several i.s.i.l. car bombs. the reason they do that is to try to keep up the sectarian tension. but not just i.s.i.l. sectarian groups also exact violence. imran khan, al jazeera baghdad. >> full report regarding an alleged secret cia prison in their country. they have only received a blacked out version. number of overseas centers that were used by the cia

it's even attacking baghdad here and there and it's not exactly succeeding. but now we see isil in syria libya, so the phenomenon is not just iraqi, it's middle eastern and there is not the kind of adequate american-iraqi response to the phenomenon. >> marwan from doha. thank you so much. >>> well, it has been a year since isil first declared itself in iraq. >> beyond the bridge is isil territory. mosul, the biggest urban center in northern iraq. some 2 million people are pleased believed to still live there. >> there are people who want to leave, but they have to pay isil a huge amount of money that they don't have. they have to provide guarantees like their house to prove that they plan to come back. they live in a prison. >> these people are born and raised in mosul. they fled to the kurdish controlled north last year when isil took over. al jazeera does not have access to the city, but these journalists have contacts inside who secretly film. they explain how isil use every opportunity to brainwash the people of mosul. they even breach in mosques. accordi

nick paton walsh on the scene in baghdad. president obama points to progress but also the problems in the war against isis. he says the pentagon is now working on new plans to try to speed up the training of iraqi forces but he concedes in his words there's no complete strategy yet. the president met with iraqi prime minister haider al-abadi of the sidelines of the g-7 summit in germany and in a news conference just a little while ago the president gave a rather candid assessment of the effort to degrade and defeat isis. >> we have made significant progress in pushing back isil from areas in which they had occupied or disrupted local populations. but we've also seen areas like in ramadi where they're displaced in one place and they come back in another. and they're nimble and they're aggressive and they're opportunistic. so one of the areas where we're going to have to improve is the speed at which we're training iraqi forces. >> let's get more now on the president's assessment of this fight against isis. his meeting with the

but american advisers, they are sitting at desks in baghdad. they're not in the war zone or on the field. no americans out here for sure. just happy, holy warriors. how hard is this fight? how hard is it to fight against isis? "we will be victorious over the cowardly traitors," he says, "with god's will." we head back though the cars and mortars start to fall a few hundred yards away but they don't mind. the next morning, we head out again. this time with the official iraqi army, you know, the one americans have spent billions of dollars training and supplying. look at those humvees. they used to have a lot more. made in america. the iraqi army is almost completely dependent on american vehicles and equipment, but more than 2,000 of these humvees have fallen into the hands of isis. scores of tanks, making the enemy that much more formidable. your tax dollars at work. what happened? listen to jaffar. he recess certed from the iraqi army last year in disgust. at the time he deserted he said he hadn't been paid in seven months and had to buy his o

baghdad? >> i think that's not in question. they're not getting to the outskirts of baghdad. what we need to do is look at what the concepts are we have, determine how to augment, refine, change them burks in particular, focus not just on the military. it's not -- you can't kill or capture your way out of an industrial-strength insurgency like this, charlie, really an industrial-strength conventional force because that is what i.s.i.l has come to be. you need to have the political component. without that you're not going to -- >> rose: the political component is support in baghdad that will enlist the support of sunni-arab tribes in iraq? >> exactly right. >> rose: propaganda war. because i.s.i.s. is using social media like no one has ever seen before. they're getting recruits around the world that are replenishing their forces. what does the west have to do, what does the coalition have to do to bring to bear a combat in the world of ideas? >> a lot more. there is clearly a war of ideas being

nick paton walsh is live from baghdad to tell us more. hi nick. >> reporter: quite devastating blast given there are over 80 iraqi security personnel injured and 34 dead we know about right now. this is to the southwest of samarra to the north of where i am standing in baghdad. a volatile front lines between isis and pro-government areas. it shows you the kind of firepower that isis has at their disposal to cause this much devastation but not even get inside the base they were targeting. at this stage, carol, people are still asking a key question. we learned staggering new information about how was it that isis were able to get into the main town that iraqi forces want to fight back and recover now ramadi. the speaker of parliament the most senior sunni politician in iraq iraq divided between sunni and shia he's told us that he believes that military officials gave an order for elite special forces defending ramadi best of the best in iraq to pull out and that was let isis move in and take the city. he also says the iraqi prime minister

. >>> let's talk to imran khan from baghdad. what is the iraq government planning to do with mosul. >> there are plans for mosul, but they will not be acted on soon. the priority is anbar, and retaking the city where the security forces and shia militias and coalition air strikes are focussing on. nil control two major border crossings from syria to anbar, which which they can enforce and create problems, mosul, if it happens, is likely to follow the same patterns that we have seen in the south. it will be shia militia, iraqi security forces, the main fighting forcers. mosul backed up by kurdish peshmerga and the coalition air strikes. a lot of people are not sure of how useful they are where you have a large civilian population. there's a conversation that what they would like the special forces embedded with the forces who can call in an air strike better, quicker and more accurately than the iraqis can. if that happens, it will be what the americans call a game change are, because it's unlikely to happen because mosul will no

. >> this is the city one of baghdad's largest neighborhoods and home to a large shia community. it always has been shia but even here people are now too scared to leave their own neighborhood. >> translator: life in baghdad is a living nightmare with car bombs and suicide attacks and leave the neighborhood if it's a life or death matter and it's better to keep our place only these days because security is unpredictable. >> had an impact on these people that they are suspicious of even traveling across the capitol. >> translator: last month two car bombs blew up at this corner where my grocery stand is located, look at the damage and do not leave our neighborhood at all. >> reporter: across town the situation is much the same for baghdad sunni muslims who after 2003 were forced out of their pra traditional homes in the capitol and live in a few neighborhoods. >> translator: we only feel safe in our neighborhood, i personally don't leave here because of arrest by government forces. >> reporter: it's not safe to drive through the streets of baghdad anymore, unfortunately after 2003

on the other side are the outskirts of baghdad. they left fallujah three months ago for the countryside. now they are heading further to the kurdish region. >> translator: they were ready to attack fallujah from the first day of ramadan. they were aiming missiles at fallujah. everyone is leaving. >> reporter: she says there are no doctors left around fallujah. the area is under isil control. and there is no electricity or government services either. despite the risk and hardship in staying, the decision to leave is almost as difficult. iraqi security leaders worry that isil fighters wilin fill trait baghdad just 10-kilometers from here. to get to baghdad those escaping anbar need someone in the capital to vouch for them. isil control more than 80% of anbar province, including most of the border crossings. and almost all of the major highways. so this small bridge has become a lifeline between anbar and the rest of the country. and the only way out for many families trying to escape the expected fighting. for security reasons cars a

don't forget baghdad. the complementary piece to this where our military leadership and diplomatic leadership can help shore up the prime minister and help with the leaders who are going to be inclusive who will get the sunni arabs back into the full, instead of feeling alienated as they came to feel in the years after we left. charlie: if push comes to shove should we let iraqi militia with connections to iran participate? david: i think that is something we don't want to do. i think that would be a very last resort. they are not going to get to the outskirts of baghdad. iraq has a lot of capability in its military. what we need to do is look at what the concepts are that we have determine how we need to augment, refine, change them. in particular, focus not just on the military. you can't kill or capture your way out of an industrial-strength insurgency like this. you need to have the political component. without that, you are not going to succeed. charlie: political component is support in baghdad that

they reinforce more quickly, it's closer to baghdad, and there's a fear that baghdad can come under attack. so that battle is currently raging. the person in charge. shia militias said the battle will take a long time. for now, mosul is not ignored. there's a plan for it. it's not the priority. the priority is anbar prove skips. >> thank you for -- province. >> thank you for that. imran khan in baghdad. >>> nine fighters from the lebanese armed group hezbollah have been killed following an attack by i.s.i.l. near the syrian border, hezbollah's media is reporting 14 i.s.i.l. gunmen died. fighting is continuing if the groups in syria >>> the syrian observatory for human rights released grim figures after more than four years of conflict. $230,000 lost their lives in syria's war, 110,000 civilian deaths within recorded 11,000 children, 7,000 women. 41,000 rebels and army defectors have been killed in battle with 50,000 losing their lives fighting for the regime. >>> a suicide bomber and two gun many attacked an ancient center. police killed one of the gunmen and arrested another. a police off

first of all, this government in baghdad, they hate the kurds. and also his comment to a caller named marie about the president -- the generals don't run the war, the president runs the war. no, here is the deal. the president is not listening to his generals. the president is ignoring his generals. generals are giving him recommendations and he doesn't like them because the school is never -- his goal is never ever to escalate. i don't want to see that either. -- he sure is reaching that goal. host: all right, janice. guest: so, i don't think there is any evidence that the generals in the field have recommended the massive deployment of new american ground troops to the middle east. i frankly think the generals who were around for the iraq war understand that -- -- well, for the time that our troops are sitting on top of an insurgency, they can increased ability. that that is not a long-term solution. and so you have secretary gates who presided over the surge and a good part of the iraq war saying on his way out that any president who ever agai

the group plans to liberate baghdad soon and that's a quote. in iraq dozens of christian men and women are now in the hands of islamic state terrorists i'm told. it is confirmed that the militants pulled off a mass kidnapping pulling nearly 60 christians. it happened near tripoli. an independent newspaper there first reported that an ambulance took over a convoy, smuggling them. it showed them gunning them down or slicing off their heads. our chief correspondent, based on your sources, how credible was this video? >> the kridvideo was on a twitter account associated with isis and they claim they have taken baghdad. they claim isis as you mentioned, will quote, liberate the iraqi capital. a source that tracks social media for the u.s. government says they remain vigilant in the face of efforts to bring out the coalitions. tribal leaders in the northern iraqi town have pled allegiance to the terror group who they say failed them. before that temporaryie evacuation at the briefing the u.s. strategy is taking the long view. >> this is not a short-t

. >>> across town be the situation is much the same for baghdad sunni muslims, they were forced oath of their homes and now living just in a few hoods. >>> we feel safe, and i don't live here, and, it is in the safe to drive through the streets of baghdad any more, after 2003, dag bad split into sunni and she a section wes almost no existence of mixed section says at all. >>> those words are echoed by people who studied the changes the sunnies have increased and what's of concern, is the impact of sectarian i., on future generations. >>> the kids, when they live, and wake up and open their eyes and the violence and, the hating, and the killing and as you know, their subconscious, foundation that's obedient, from 5-7 and that's many kids, they have that feeling. >>> i think, if the future usual we will face a real problem from their kids. >>> there are still mixed neighborhoods across baghdad like this one and they are more well off, and now this neighborhood in, particular, has been hit by several car bombs and, the reason they do that is to try to keep it up and it is not just isil

and the chairman just alluded to that, and that's the policy, let's do that, and then we turned to baghdad and said you can't slow this town. in the earlier days they were slowing it down and now it's getting directly to the kurds, and not only our stuff but stuff coming from europe and elsewhere, because these guys really do fight. >> i appreciate that, and i understand the policy bank shot as you call it, and i am concerned that maybe we are not putting enough english on it. i hope we will continue to work in that direction. the deadline, general dempsey, for the nuclear negotiations with iran is weeks away and the perception is that the u.s. is entering into a deal with iran, and the world feels they are watching the superpower capitulate into a lesser power. i'm afraid saudi arabia is considering its nuclear future and that the u.s. appears weaker with every step forward that isis takes. i know these are policy decisions on the administrative level and not at your level, but a near-term decision like this could have much greater implications across the middle east as you know better th

. >>> residents of baghdad, have told al jazeera that they are living in fear. now, the dangerous life in iraq's capital. >>> this is the largest neighborhoods and home to a large she a community. >>> it's always been she a, and even here, people are now too scared to leave their own neighborhood. >>> life, has become a living nightmare, everywhere you go there are car bombs and we only leigh if it's a life or dead measure. and security is unpredictable. >>> isil car bombs had such an impact that they're suspicious about traveling across the capital. >>> last month two car bombs blew up where my grocery stand is located and look at the damage. we don't leave our neighborhood at all- >>> across town, it is the same for seanmy muslims who were forced out of their traditional homes and now live in just a few neighborhood. >>> we don't feel safe, and, i don't live here, and risk from government forces. >>> it is not safe to drive through streets of baghdad any more after tweel baghdad split into sunni and she a sections with no mixed sections. >>> those words are ec

it's all going through baghdad. >> thank you so much. roslind jordan there. >>> it's been one year since isil declared it's intent in iraq when it took control of mosul as iraqi troops threat. >> some two million people are believed to live in mosul cut off from the rest of the country. >> people who want to leave they have to pay isil a huge amount of money that they don't have. they have to provide guarantees like their house to prove that they plan to come back. they live in a prison. >> these people fled to the kurdish controlled north last year when isil took over. al jazeera does not have access to the city, but these journalists have contacts inside who secretly film. >> they explain how isil uses every opportunity to brainwash the people of mosul. they even breach in malls. according to journalists isil hides its weapons in civilian neighborhoods so people will turn against the u.s.-led coalition when it targets the area. but isil does have some support. it is age to exploit sunni grievances. many in the community have long felt

al jazeera, baghdad. south korea has reported a further 14 cases brings the number of confirmed infections to 122. so far the virus has claimed the ten people. more than 3,300 people remain in quarantine. by the end of the week, a spokeswoman for the joint mission between the world health organization and south korea. she says the government has taken steps to contain the outbreak. since the beginning of the outbreak, the government has done contact which is incredibly important to trace the contacts and have anyone who has come in contact with a mers case in isolation, that can be self-ice isolation, or if the person is ill it can can be a health facility. also getting the message out to the public if they do have ill, if they do have any symptoms of mers, which would be fever, sneezing, coughing they need to take action to get in touch with health authorities and to isolate themselves as much as possible until it's checked whether they are positive for the virus. countries can can be on alert, and can p

. -- and baghdad. shiite militias have been deployed around checkpoints to back security forces. >> with true believers in patriots and the support of iraq's friends, we will beat the islamic state organization. >> the army and shiite militias say they have launched a counter offensive to push militants out of ramadi. meanwhile, coalition air raids targeted positions in an roar -- in anbar and another province in the hands of the islamic state group. genie: do not forget, if you want to get any more information on the latest of what is happening there on the ground, you can check out the france 24 website. that is www. france24.com. moving on for you now, let's go to northern paris, where police have cleared out hundreds of african migrants from a makeshift cap under a metro bridge there. approximately 350 have been living there under the metro tracks. most of them come from east africa. >> the evacuation operation began in the early hours of tuesday when security forces assembled the almost 350 migran

and we shouldn't do it through baghdad. we should do it into erbil. fly airplanes into erbil, offload weapons and material. >> everyone agrees that is one of the answers. how come it's not happening? >> well because this government in baghdad is corrupt and because everything that the united states sends to the kurds goes into baghdad for distribution to the kurds, but it never gets to the kurds. we haven't provided the kurds with anything and it's time that we bypass baghdad, bypass this surrogate government for iran and we start supplying the kurds directly. these people will fight, and they can make a difference in this fight against isis. >> i see. meanwhile, you've got iraqi officials saying that isis fighters have cut off water to the towns, loyalist towns, in and around ramadi. they've taken down ramadi obviously. the pentagon has confirmed that 10,000 isis fighters have been killed in battle but they're still controlling and sort of dominating the region. >> look we did this body count assessment in vietnam. it doesn't work. when you kill 10,0

they are not just in baghdad. they are around the country. the job they are doing is building a capable and motivated ground force that we can leverage. and we will revisit that question when we have a ground force to enable. committee member: let me make sure i understand your position. if forward iraqi forces are in contact with isis or enemy elements and close air support would be effective in terms of influencing that battle, shaping the battlefield, then you would support u.s. military personnel in the form of forward air control? gen. dempsey: we will take that one for the record congressman. mr. moulton: gentlemen: thank you for your service. general dempsey, when i walked into your office in baghdad as a lieutenant you proved to me that you are not only a great national leader but that you are a very good boss. i am grateful for being able to serve with you as well as have you lead our country in important ways. thank you very much. when you say that putting combat troops on the ground is no substitute for local forces, because only t

the sunnis feel the baghdad government ignored them. the catalyst, the reason they are doing it is the sunni tribes particularly the jam aily tribe feels that the militias have been brought in. in the speech he refers to the iranians and the iranian backed shia militia. the tribal sheikh feels that it is a sectarian war, and leads his people to join with i.s.i.l. they feel they are being attacked by the shias. all of this is a problem for the government. they were hoping to get a lot of these sunni tribes on board. they had the previous government that did not talk to the sunnis. they reached out to them, but not enough. that's why we see the moves apt the moment. >> what is the implications trying to take map anbar. >> well listening if to the i.s.i.l. successes, you may think i.s.i.l. had a tremendous success, that's not true. shia militias and security forces took a number of towns to be moved. they are getting ready to amount offensive on ramadi. where this is difficult is under fallujah. they have been under the occupation of i.s.i