he said the soldiers are being sent in response to a request from iraqi prime minister hider al abadi. and brings the troop level up to 3, 550. obama also ordered delivery of equipment and weapons needed by the iraqi government. islamic state militants seized ramadi last month and forces have been locked in a fierce battle to regain control of the city. life for the residents of iraq's second largest city has drastically changed over the past year people in mosul now live in fear under strict laws enforced by the group islamic state. i nhk world's hiroshi shimazaki has been following developments on the ground, and he got a rare look at the realities of living under the militant group's rules. >> reporter: nhk has obtained a recent video of the city of mosul secretly recorded by a resident. a motorcade is seen careening through the city's streets with islamic state militants inside waving their black flag. this was once a government office building. it's now under the control of the insurgents. downtown mobile phone shops are closed. islamic state militants are restricting cell phone

in an interview with state tv, hider al-abadi said the military irrelevant lost a of weapons when they fell. the iraqi army fled from mosul last june. >>> imran kahn is live for us in baghdad. imran, just how much weaponry and material did isil gain in this? >> reporter: well, enough for a battalion, that's what was stationed up in mosul. so we are talking about a anybody of humvees prime minute officer al badi said 2000 vehicles. but we know that weapons cash as were stolen, communication military uniforms were stolen, anything that might have been in that base when isil took it over would have been fair game for them. however, there is some discrepancy about the figures. i have spoken to a number of u.s. military contractors here in iraq who supply the iraqi army with spare parts for humvees and they feel that that 2,300 figure a little high. so there may well be some politics going on here prime minister al-abadi may be using it to try to put some pressure the americans to speed up delivery of military equipment that he says is absolutely necessary for them to fight isil. so there

. >> reporter: but president obama said iraq shiite prime minister hider al-abadi will reach out to sunnis. >> mr. abady is very much committed to effective inclusive governments. >> reporter: still eyes isisis is dividing iraq and conquered one-third of the nation. officials said a month ago they were ready to kick isis out of mosul, they didn't. then came rammed in ditch now, nobody is daring a guess as to when the iraqi army might really be ready. i'm steve handlesman, nbc news, washington. >>> an american who went to syria to fight isis militants has been killed. the state department is confirming reports that keith broomfield was killed in syria. he is from massachusetts and his mother tells nbc news he left four months ago to fight alongside kurdish forces against isis. she says she didn't want him to go but had no way to stop him. >>> how cutting back on overtime pay to change the fight against crime. >>> cracking down on stores that sell those synthetic drugs. in the city, the drastic move proposed by the mayor and what families should watch out for. >>> guys really just one word w

i want to ask you about iraqi prime minister hider al abadi. we know now that he may visit iran for isis talks. iran obviously, very important to iraq in its fight against isis as is the u.s. it is sort of a strange situation where the u.s. and iran are working not together but maybe to the same purpose. knowing this and knowing that there is this allegiance do you trust al abadi as he's working so closely with iran? >> prime minister abadi is the leader of a sovereign nation, iraq, and they have a long border with iran. i think we should expect that he's going to want to have a dialogue with a neighbor like iran and that he would be visiting would be we would anticipate, a routine sort of occurrence. our message to iran has been our message to all the neighbors in the region that want to participate in this effort against isil and that's not to do anything that's going to further enflame sectarian tensions. the other thing i'd say about prime minister abadi is he's made it very clear that it is his policy and his government that all the forces

addition to that frederica, there is a very important meeting tomorrow the iraqi prime minister hider al-abadi will be here for a bilateral meeting with the president, meeting with g-7 leaders, coming all the way up from baghdad and with this news that perhaps iraqi security forces have retaken the city of baiji, that would be a big development in the fight against isis. i asked white house press secretary josh earnest today during the briefing they held in the alps for us reporters and earnest said they could not confirm that at this point, that they are looking into it but that, of course, would be a positive development and of course one reason why we are all going to be watching that meeting with prime minister, you remember thank interview our colleague, barbara starr, did with defense secretary ash carter when he asked whether the iraqi also the will to fight. safe to say -- safe to say there's some diplomatic pressure on the to sort of smooth over some hurt feelings rough edges in that relationship with the iraqi prime minister. they did not take to that very well comes very well down i

they were simply not even invited, not brought along by the government of iraq the government of hider al abadi should they have been included in this? >> i certainly think should have been included. they've been playing a vital role in iraq and syria. there may have been iraqi sensitivities they were worried about in giving them a seat at the table. similarly, the turks may have been concerned about having a presence there. but nonetheless, the groups like the kurds that are doing the fighting and the dying out there i think deserve to be represented. and this is something i think we have to push hard on more generally. the iraqi government needs to make efforts to bring in the kurds and the sunnis to make sure they're both armed well and have the capacity to fight isis. and in particular with respect to the sunnis until we can persuade the sunnies to peel away the war against isis is never going to be finished. >> i think people are losing the confidence if today's example of preventing the kurds from attending the meeting is an example. they've got a lot of work to do to ensure the world tha