by the iraqi security forces. as we saw in ramadi, they will then constricty, it and eventually clear it. no timeline yet for how long that will take. thes another area where enemy is fairly well dug in. falluja is another tally really don't want to give up. moving to the river valley, wwe undereen hit is still enemy control. that has to be cleared. really from north of ramadi all the way up, all of that area and cut the area between the river and the lake is still enemy controlled. this is kind of what is next for anbar. all of this area needs to be cleared out. the attacks that we saw over the weekend really up into yesterday , really they originated from forces moving around in that kind of ungoverned and largely open space between the river and lake. that is where i sold is able to generate its force and is ablete into -- isil to generate its force and infiltrate into the areas heading southwest. the iraqis have a campaign plan, obviously it is their decision. they will decide for the next main effort will be.

they're going to work with the iraqis. the iraqis, of course, you have more than 3,000 u.s. troops on the ground now, but these are civilians, they're not soldiers. so the iraqis would then have the lead on this in terms of trying to regain these americans, get them back to safety. >> jim sciutto, nick paton walsh, keep us posted as you learn any more new information. >>> three of the americans freed from prison in iran have arrived at a u.s. military base in germany. this is the first image we've seen of "washington post" journalist jason rezaian. this was posted on the tarmac in geneva, the picture taken under those circumstances, then posted on twitter. the first photo since his release that we know of. the freed prisoners stopped off in geneva switzerland after leaving tehran on a private jet, then they were also taken to germany. special enjoy brett mckirk tweeted this image along with this, quote, thrilled to see jason rezaian land safely in geneva tonight after 18 months of unjust imprisonment in iran, unquote. thrilled is just one of the many emotions the family memb

how can he maintain this stalemate that paralyzes the iraqis? he has to find -- he has to provide barzani with some kind of guarantee, he needs to give him some kind of insurance policy that iran is not going to sell them out. there's only one country that can provide that guarantee and that's the united states, the only country that barzani would trust and so the shah asks nixon and kissinger to come into the -- come into the covert war in iraq. for the cia to provide money and arms to the kurds, but more importantly to establish contact with the iraqi kurds and express sympathy for their goals. this would represent a break with the policies of all previous administrations who had resisted getting drawn into this war in iraq. after all, the united states is fighting a war, another civil war, in the judge else of southeast asia, the last thing anybody wants is to get involved in another obscure conflict in some place that most americans had never heard of. not surprisingly the entire foreign policy establishment in washington advises both -- adv

and iraqi organizations. if you take the example of how do you program most effectively to stabilize areas that have recently been retaken from isis, for example. within those conversations all are looking at this issue seriously and developing their own strategies for engagement. i think one of the kind of key messages of this research is within that conversation and within that roadmapping and blueprinting. the necessityet bignvesting equally as evidence and civil society's role in governments as you might invest in infrastructure. very output heavy in the sense we will repair the water system and we will rebuild a certain number of schools. what people in the service tell us is it is not necessarily the most important factor for them. the most important factor is they feel their voices are listened to and things change when they vocalize those needs. would appear that one of the ast effective is supporting very active and civil society and within that two key factors. of organization, able to build the lev

iraqi forces say their losses have been minimal.t shows you how difficult it is to fully push isis out. as it stands, it is street by street fighting. throughout this, iraqi forces are working to extract the remaining hundreds of families still inside ramadi city. many we understand from iraqi officials, are being used as human shields by the militants. they have promised that this year, 2016, is the year that isis will finally be driven out of iraq. there is clearly still a long road ahead. victor? allison? >> thank you so much nima. >>> let's bring in lieutenant colonel rick francona. good to have you this morning. >> good morning. >> the reclaiming of ramadi is an accomplishment worth applauding. the more important question is, does the iraqi army have the resources and strategy. does the government have the resolve to now hold ramadi? >> that will be the key. i do think they have the resources around they have the will. i think they have made a political shift with what's going out on anbar province. once it is secured, they wil

the two contractors had dual iraqi-american citizenship and the third an american national. the search for a hingham marine lost at sea. 23-year-old christopher orlando is one of a dozen marines who disappeared their helicopter crashed off the coast of hawaii. 2010. his family released a statement saturday saying thankful for everyone involved in the search and they are asking the public to keep orlando in their thoughts. >>> and a vigil was held this weekend for those missing machines. military and helicopters have been searching the waters for the past few days and no sign of the marines. the community gathered to

my real hope was iraqi revenues go down, that these iraqi actors, whichever political angle you take,that the cost of the conflict will be so high they will lose interest in spending so much on the weapons, on the fighting, on the but so far, i don't know if the panels -- i have not seen an indicator that influences the key actors to really take it in a different direction and probably that is offset because of the regional interventions which i'll come back to it if there is no question about it. okay. here. >> sarah chase, carnegie endowment. i wanted to drill down further into the sort of decoupling that you suggested between corruption and governgovernance. and again i'm just listening to what you're saying about the report, but if seems as though you've got increasing -- perceptions of increase in corruption or increasingly negative perceptions of corruption throughout the period, increasing expectations of government at a certain point, but not necessarily increasing perceptions of actual government delivery. and so i'd like to probe a little further as to whether this decouplin

an estimated 3.3 million iraqis have been displaced by fighting between the iraqi armed forces and isillast two years. they are amongst 7.3 million people the u.n. says are in urgent need of helpful and it's warning that depends on this intensity of fighting in cities such as mosul, that number could rise to between 12 and 13 million by the end of the year. imran kahn has more from the iraqi capital baghdad. >> reporter: with the fall in oil prices iraq is facing a real shortfall in the fund for this humanitarian cries. what the u.n. have said is they can raise -- they want to raise, sorry, $861 million. now, the iraqi government says they need 1.56 and have about 43% that have and are relying on the u.n. to raise the rest of it. however, what the u.n. have said is that they don't have that money, they need to ask international donors to give them ma money. there has been some real concern from the u.n. and from the iraqi government that the international community simply doesn't have the money. take a look at what's going on in europe, for example, you have the refugee crisis there, a

my real hope was as the iraqi revenues go down, that these iraqi actors, whichever political angle you take, that the cost of the conflict will be so high they will lose interest in spending so much on the weapons, on the fighting, on the need for reconstruction. but so far, i don't know if the panels -- i have not seen an indicator that influences the key actors to really take it in a different direction and probably that is offset because of the regional interventions which i'll come back to it if there is no question about it. okay. here. >> sarah chase, carnegie endowment. i wanted to drill down further into the sort of decoupling that you suggested between corruption and governance. and again i'm just listening to what you're saying about the report, but if seems as though you've got increasing -- perceptions of increase in corruption or increasingly negative perceptions of corruption throughout the period, increasing expectations of government at a certain point, but not necessarily increasing perceptions of actual government delivery. and so i'd like to probe a little further as

i hope the iraqi government acts as responsibly. the saudis just last week opened up embassy in baghdad f first time in 25 years i hope this doesn't reverse that. >> dickerson: stay in iraq. ramadi has been retain or partially retain by iraqi forces why is that so important, retain from isis which took it in may. why is that important? >> it's important for two reasons, john. the first is, what was taken from isis and second is who took it. what was taken, this was strategically significant city. largest city in anbar province, the capital where the sunnis in iraq live. on the strategic road to syria, on the strategic highway to jordan. 70 miles from baghdad, an embarrassment to the iraqi government when they lost it seven months ago. what was taken is of significance. who took it, all of the games to date in iraq have been by the kurds or by shia militia in this case it was iraqi security forces. >> dickerson: tom, we look back on this say this was a turning point for the region? >> i think it's important progress, no doubt about t

most were iraqi kurds. today is another example of people drowning in the sea.y are actually lucky because at least their bodies have been returned because we have had thousands whose bodies have been lost at sea and others who have not been able to return. >> jordan's army says its border guards have killed 12 people trying to cross over from syria. the statement says some were armed, and another 24 fled. the army also confiscated 2 million drug capsules that were left behind. jordan's rules of engagement allow guards to shoot and kill anyone who tried to cross the border. a funeral has been held in the west bank for a routine age girl shot dead by an israeli security guard. hundreds of people attended the funeral for the 13-year-old in the village of yeta, near hebron. israeli police say the girl had a fight with her family and tried to stab the guard of the settlement. 162 palestinians and 25 israelis have been killed in the latest wave of violence which started at the beginning of october. >>> yemeni journalists have proceed protested bukari's what they beli

the iraqi government has cut back on its reconstruction investment. there is talk that subsidies will be reduced for electricity and water. will this be a strain that civil society will not be able to take? thank you. >> could you elaborate on that a little more? how do you see civil society's role in dealing with those issues? >> if the pie is growing it is one thing to argue about dividing the part you -- pie evenly. when it is shrinking that will put a strain on the formal and informal parts of the iraqi government. i am thinking the government has been the employer of first resort. those days are over. especiallyt growing, among the university educated, that will put tremendous strain on the society. thank you. >> i had a brief comment about this. i think this crisis despite all the negative aspect is an opportunity for government and civil society to think about many aspects that were left forgotten over the last 10 years. governmente of the took seriously into diversifying the economy instead of relying on the oil sector. to end up withis the si

iraqi forces began taking back parts of ramadi two weeks ago. government troops have taken control of a main mosque as a well as a hospital. booby trops set up by isil are among the main challenges for the iraqi soldiers. >>> sinjar still sits deserted we the kurdish peshmerga still not allowing residents to return for safety reasons. and as mohammed jamjoom reports, from a camp that many of the yazidis who were displaced simply don't want to go back anyway. >> reporter: for carson and his family, all internally displaced yazidis, returning home wouldn't even begin to help. >> translator: if my family isn't there, i don't have the heart to return to sinjar, because my heart is broken. it's like an open wound that salt was pored into. >> reporter: he shows us a picture of his oldest son whom isil kidnapped after storming sinjar in august 2014. his daughter, daughter-in-law, and grandson were also taken. written on every face inside this tent are stories of unrelenting pain, unbearable loss. his sister-in-law had two of her children kidnaps, a 14

iraqi troops are suffering new setbacks with coordinated attacks. in a recently released video they say they're still fighting in the center of ramadi. this shows the headquarters in the center of the city. al jazeera has been told that there was a car bomb attack and intense shelling on iraqi forces i in a government compound in the city. and isil fighters are still in control of buildings nearby. isil used another 10 suicide-bombers in attacks in the army north of the city destroying army vehicles and taking control of the tense division headquarters. the army has made big advances to and around ramadi in recent woke. that will help 100 families who have been trapped by the fighting. >> isil has been accused of using people as human shields. >> may god punish them. they shot people in the head who refused to go with them. bodies are still there. you can go and see them. >> retaking ramadi was the first big victory for the army since mid 2045. but it seems that the army is battling for the wider area and remain under threat of boobie traps left by

militants have attacked an iraqi army basement three iraqi soldiers have been killed.ficial i officials say ten suicide bombers attacked that base. okay, this is happening as iraqi forces are evacuating. civilians still looking for isis fighters, holding on to parts of that city, hiding out there. cnn's senior correspondent is live from baghdad. first, give us an idea of this attack and how it went down. >> reporter: we understand this was yesterday evening, victor. a complex attack. multiple suicide vehicles, coming towards this army basement only 35 kilometers from that crucial central government district right in the center of ramadi. we understand the impact on civilians was minimal him if you said three so far in terms of the casualty count amongst iraqi forces and an injury count that we still are waiting to confirm. it gives you a sense of even though it's now almost a week since the iraqi government announced the liberation of ramadi with the prime minister, very much jubilant and we raising the iraqi flag in that central government is doubling down on the sens

are they iraqis or a portion of them iranians?portion of them are iranians but most of them are iraqis. >> rose: the terms are within iraq. >> yes. >> rose: so they grew. do they coordinate at all with the regular iranian army? >> no. they are commanded by senior iranian generals. when to create is harder than expected. >> rose: they're taking to crete. >> they pulled back in u.s. strikes. >> rose: the fact is without the u.s. air strikes they might not have been able to do it. >> they were still very angry the u.s. was involved. and the militia were saying if the u.s. returnsájuz iraq we wil fight. there's no coordination, they are openly hostile. >> rose: there's no coordination through the iraqi government. >> the iraqi government is giving them all of the stuff which we give to them. so we are indirectly supporting an army who are often guilty of the same crimes as isis. >> rose: we're talking about sunni fighters. let's take a look. this is the sunni fighters in the anwar provinces. here it is. >> do you think you can hold on

isil fighters have so far managed to slow the iraqi forces assault.22 hours have been battling to hold their positions. the armed group have booby trapped buildings and used suicide come bombs to devastating effect against the iraqi security forces. heavy shelling and u.s.-led airstrikes cannot be used effectively here as the iraqis say civilians are trapped inside the neighborhood. most have managed to escape to places outside of the city. in particular the town here. children here him i believe what they have seen while others just wait. >> translator: we and the security force to his quickly remove i.e.d.s from central rah mad. we want to get rid of any isil signs in the city and we want to return to our homes. >> reporter: some say that the conditions here are so dire that they just want to leave. others are just fed up. but getting back home will be a long and difficult process. iraqi police say they need to mount patrols and reopen police stations before people can come back. but what will they be coming back to? it will be bombed out buildings

the iraqi prime minister condemned today in a brief statement and put a page on his facebook said that these groups are criminal groups, and he said in his statement that he made an order to iraqi security forces in the province to chase those people, describing them, they're trying to hit the iraqi national unity. also, iraqi interior minister condemned what happened, and in a statement put on his website what happened was a desperate attempt, saying that some groups are trying to provoke iraqi sectarian groups against each other. >> u.s. and other world stock markets are down following a massive loss on china's market. it plunged 7% before trading was suspended for the day. the fall is a reflection before the slow economic growth. monday was the first test of a new stock market circuit between china, which is supposed to stock trade when losses hit the 5% mark. adrian brown is in beijing, and he has more for us. >> well, this was the worst start ever to the trading year on the shanghai and shenzhen stock markets, the blue chip index which measures the performance of china's top 300 c

the iraqi army said it is now getting ready to drive isil, the islamic state in iraq and the levant, out of the group's stronghold in the city of ramadi. isil fighters took the city in may. we have the latest from the iraqi capital of baghdad. >> in the battle to retake control of the city ramadi from isil fighters, iraqi security forces now advancing towards the eastern part of the city a neighborhood which is being described as the iraqi government as th the last strong hold of isil fight necessary ramadi. in the plasmati few years they were able to take the center of the city. now they're trying to encircle this part of the city. we're told that they're shelling the area, there are air raids going on and they're also attempting to ferry residents and families who are stuck in that area to safety. if this part of the city is, indeed, cleared of isil fighters it will have been a significant development for iraqi security forces. they say they're confident they will be able to did do so, to retake control of the entirety of the ramadi very soon. it remains to be seen how soon that wi

the public inquiry into 2004 allegations british troops murdered and mutilated iraqis in detention.istry of defense issued only a statement saying the vast majority of u.k. service personnel conduct themselves professionally and in accordance with the law. the m.o.d. takes all allegations of abuse and unlawful killing extremely seriously yet the number of cases continues to grow, and their ability to deal with them is starting to look questionable. one clear inference from readi reading from th the interview is the complexity they're looking at risk overwhelming the team. the m.o.d. set up in part to prevent the international criminal court from looking at the abuse allegations. if it fails, the i.c.c. is on stand by, and we could see british soldiers facing trial in the hague. >> russia's pan on turkish goods has come in effect. it companies after turkey shot down a russian jet in november. since then russia has sanctions of banned food. >> this man owns this farm. he grows a variety of fruits such as lemon, lime, and manderines which he exports to russian consumers. a few months a

car bombs in a village west of the iraqi city of ramadi. the suicide attacks hit the headquarters of the federal police. earlier i.s.i.l. killed 72 soldiers in three separate suicide attacks in ramadi. the iraqi army says the latest fighting against the armed group was in the i.s.i.l.'s last stronghold in the area. >> reporter: iraqi soldiers on the road to what they hope is the last remaining i.s.i.l. stronghold in ramadi. i.s.i.l. fighters have so far managed to slow the iraqi force' aassault and the last 72 hours they've been balgting to hold their positions. the armed group has trapped buildings and have used suicide car bombs against the iraqi security forces. heavy shelling and air strikes cannot be used effectively here because vivians are trapped inside the neighborhood. most have escaped to places outside the city. children here mimic what they've seen and others just wait. >> translation: we asked the security forces to quickly remove iuds from central ramadi. we want to get rid of any i.s.i.l. signs in the city and we want to ret

charlie: we can talk about the sunni and the iraqi shia militias. are they iraqis or iranians?re iraqis. charlie: in terms of iraq and the ayatollahs of iraq. do they coordinate at all with the regular iranian army? ben: no. there commanded by senior iranian generals. when that tikrit operation was harder than they expected -- they actually pulled back and there were u.s. airstrikes and they were very angry. charlie: without the u.s. airstrikes, they may not have been able to do it. ben: they were still very angry that the u.s. was involved. all of the shiite militias said that if the u.s. returns to iraq, we will fight them. no coronation, they are openly hostile. charlie: no coronation to the iraqi government? ben: the iraqi government is giving them all of the staff which we give to them. we, indirectly, are supporting an army who are often guilty of the same crimes as isis. charlie: we've been talking about sunni fighters. this is ben with sunni fighters. [clip] >> do think you can hold onto him? >> [on screen] >> they're saying they're going to now use the tanks. charlie:

first at least two sunni mosques we understand have been attacked in hila that is just south of the iraqiol baghdad. no one so far claimed responsibility for the attacks and they of course follow saudi arabia's execution of the prominent shia cleric al--nimr and the latest from abraham who is in the iraqi capitol baghdad and tell us what more you know about these attacks. >> according to more than a security source from the providence located just south of baghdad the source said three attacks happened and three separate places, almost at one time around midnight yesterday night. attacked three mosques and one of them in the downtown of the capitol of hella and the other one in the neighborhood which is north of there and another one east of bobbel and the attacks came as the source said at one time. one of the mosques and the dome of the mosques were totally collapsed. >> and of course this comes at a time of increased tension as saudi arabia cuts diplomatic ties with iran, is that tension being felt in iraq? >> look, there is no tangible evidence according to the sources from bobbel and

with the syrian and the iraqis. and i believe as the decades for the time being. >> your book has a remarkable treatise on line in 2004 under the title of the management of savagery. this my possible have been written by a egyptian close to the group. as every your summary the face of savagery expelling the non muslims from the area and the face to consolidate that order so it seems like what they used to call the dictatorship of the proletariat. how is it that every day brutality might prepare the ground for the society? >>. >> a very good question. that is the renewal of that state when we write the of the annual of the edge of body movement he concentrated on the savagery. he wants to say that when that passes through this it is time to take over. what does he mean by that? and when we create this anarchy and if you look at what is happening in france is an example to use it for two reasons. but that is what happened. so as is a brutal organization. so as the means of recruitment because of the message that they

the iraqi army is trying to drive isil from its strong hold in ram add i.he group responded with suicide blasts killing 20 policemen. thousands are on the streets of the maldovan capitol calling for early elections citing a lack of reform by the country's prime minister. supporters at a rally in athens 2 surveys published earlier that the opposition is polling better than the ruling party for the first time in at least a year. bearing brunt of ref eugenia e crisis the anti-austerity party won promising to renegotiate spiraling debt repayments. a greek exit from the euro zone. a third bail-out. in another shock move tsipras called for new elections. he formed a coalition government stucks hikes and pension reforms. at the same time, greece struggled to cope with the loin's share of refugees, more than 850,000 crossed there last year alone. how would you characterize the first year for tsipras. some say he sold out. others say he saved the economy. what's your take? >> reporter: we have to be honest about this. talking about two different parties. we are look

the iraqi army says the latest finding was in isil's language stronghold in the area. imran khan reports. >> reporter: iraqi soldiers on the road to what they hope is the last stronghold in ramadi. isil fighters have managed to slow the iraqi forces' assault and the last 22 hours have been battle to go hold their positions the armed group has boobby trapped buildings and used suicide car bombs to devastating effects against the iraqi security forces. heavy shelling, u.s. led airstrikes cannot be used effectively here as the iraqi say they are trapped inside neighborhood. most have esc aids outside of the city, in particular the touven of habania. children memmic what they have seen while others wait? >> we ask the security forces to remove ieds from central ramadi. we want to get rid of any isil signs in the city. we want to return to our homes some say conditions are some dire they want to leave. others are fet up getting back home will be a long and difficult process. they hope to reopen police stations before people come back. what will they come back to? bombed out

the iraqi the iraqi military says it has rescued more than 50 iraqi families isis was using as human shields in ramadi, and moved them to secure locations. the violence comes just after iraqi forces retook ramadi earlier this week. isis had seized the city, 75 miles west of baghdad, in may. saudi arabia's execution today of a prominent shiite cleric and 46 other prisoners on terrorism charges is sparking international outrage. iran's supreme leader, ayatollah ali khamenei, denounced the execution of sheik nimr al-nimr by comparing saudi arabia to isis. tonight, protesters have set fire to the saudi embassy in iran's capital of tehran ...and stormed the saudi consulate in iran's second largest city, meshad. earlier, shi'ite muslims in iran, pakistan, other parts of the middle east, and europe protested the sheik's execution. nimr was a vocal critic of saudi arabia's sunni monarchy. the others executed were activists in the shi'ite minority or alleged al qaeda members. 2016 will be the last full year of the obama presidency, and the president's sixth year in a row working with a republ

iraqi intelligence service. all of them were members of the baath party and all of a sudden i didn't have jobs anymore. what did they do? a whole bunch of them went to work for al qaeda in iraq because they were mad number one and number two they got paid by those organizations. it was those two decisions that i think were the critical decisions that led to that. >> when you look back as a former member of the cia were you satisfied with how things work out in iraq's? >> of horse not. it's a mess. one of the things you have to think about what would the place look like what with the place look like today if we hadn't done that? you have to do the counterfactual. what would iraq look like today if we had not invaded iraq? who knows but let me give you a possibility. sanctions would eventually gone away without a doubt. there's no way that the united states would hold the sanctions together. they would have gone away. he would have restarted his weapons program and he would have had chemical weapons and he would h

the iraqi foreign minute industry has condemned saudi arabia's execution of nimr al-nimr. and demonstrators have been on the streets, around 3,000 demonstrators gathered in eastern tehran chanting slogans against saudi arabia's royal family. >>> saudi affairs specially, ahmed ibrahim says the region's instability is because of iran. >> a lot of country they are expressing their outrage of the iranian extent of terrorism and disrupting the arab nations. whether the demonstration in sudan or in other places. as you can see the bombs of sunni mosque the iraq. this is exactly the footprint of the iranian regime. saudi arabia by taking the decision of cutting diplomatic ties with iran they exploit iran pretty well to the international community and they show the real face of iran. i think iran should come back to their sense is and they should be logical in bargaining in syria or in yemen. at the end of the day, what saudi arabia is trying to did is stabilize the region and saudi arabia had enough of iranian exporting revolutions, exporting terrorism, bombs, exporting human wal

iraqi society heavily relies on government jobs.und 95% of all of iraq's revenues comes from oil. about 4.5 million people are on the state payroll, and another 3.7 million people ref state pensions. any cut in those pensions and payrolls means that there is a direct impact in places like this. iraq's market, and the ability for iraqis to be able to feed themselves and look after themselves. this man says shoppers aren't buying as much as they used to. >> translator: the purchase power for people has declined because of the austerity measures implemented by the government. people are trying to save as much money as they can, in case times get even tougher. >> reporter: economists say that fear is well founded. >> translator: state employees have the right now to be afraid about their salaries. the government's actions in such regard is mounting fear and pressure on civil servants. it coincides with the fast-pacing international economic developments that overshadow's iraq's economic situation. these fears will continue. >> reporter:

they have used suicide car bombings against the iraqi suicide forces. heavy shelling and air strikes cannot be used effectively here as the iraqi say civilians are trapped inside the neighborhood. most have escaped to places outside of the city. children here mimic what they've seen while others just wait >> translation: we asked the security forces to quickly remove iuds from central ramadi. we want to get rid of i.s.i.l. signs in the city and we want to return to our homes. >> reporter: some say that the conditions here are so dire that they just want to leave. others are just fed up. getting back home will be a long and difficult process. iraqi police say they need to mount patrols and reopen police stations before people come back. what will they come back to? devastated infrastructure and this is before anybody has really talked about reconstruction >>> thousands of people in the u.s. are digging themselves out with snow shovels after a mammoth blizzard brought much of the east coast to an icy stand still. the clean up has begun. streets are being

that is what officials are doing with iraqi counterparts.

the iraqi army surrendered in less than 90 days. the consequences of the war were to last much longer. saudi arabia's decision to call on american military power to help push the iraqis out of kuwait enraged osam a bin laden. he had offered his own fighters to the cause. the decision to allow western troops to remain in saudi arabia, islam's holy land, reinforced the anti western focus of the newly formed al-qaeda. for the people of iraq the real suffering began after the invasion of kuwait was over. within days of the ceasefire, iraq was at war with itself. two uprisings, one in the kurdish north and another by mainly shia in the south were put down by hussein. tens of thousands of people died. then an era of international sanctions began. it brought far more than just economic ruin. childhood malnutrition rates would spike. for families throughout the country, reliable medical care became extremely hard to obtain. many wondered then and still now why he was allowed to remain in power. that suffering got worse. in the wake of 9/11,

charlie: no coronation to the iraqi government?is giving them all of the staff which we give to them. we, indirectly, are supporting an army who are often guilty of the same crimes as isis. charlie: we've been talking about sunni fighters. this is ben with sunni fighters. [clip] >> do think you can hold onto him? >> [indiscernible] >> they're saying they're going to now use the tanks. charlie: what is the closest call that you had their? ben: there were snipers and there's trees that were firing fairly accurately. it looked bad, i was not action to concern that day. it looks and sounds very bad. clip, yesee from that they need a and ammunition, but they needed training. their guys firing with rifles. jackson: there were like 50 of them and they were all firing their weapons at the same time. i was just thinking, they are giving way our cover and are spots. they going to come in and kill all of us. half of them were firing into the sky. charlie: what is the level of the arms that have been received from the united states? ben: the e

the iraqi -- militants.drove isis out of the heart of ramadi monday, declaring it liberated. ramadi fell to the terror group in may, and iraqi forces have been fighting to reclaim that key city for more than a week. we'll go live to baghdad. nema has the latest. good to have you with us. the fighting there continues. isis still holding out in the outskirts of the city, reportedly staging the attack on a nearby base. what more can you tell us about the situation? >> reporter: this is characterized as ongoing, they say the areas in which isis has a presence that's intensifying. yesterday evening, a complex attack on the outskirts of ramadi, hitting the 10th division headquarters. multiple suicide car bombs. they were pushed back with what iraqi government officials are saying was limited exposure. it is this reality that isis are still fighting in a city that the iraqi government has liberated. it gives a sense of how difficult it is with street-by-street fighting. this is what we've heard repeatedly from iraq

have been displace the by fighting between the iraqi armed forces and i.s.i.l. imran khan reports. >> reporter: with the fall in oil price, the u.n. is facing a shortfall in funding. they want to raise $861 million. the iraqi government says they need $1.256. they have a percentage, and want the u.n. to raise the rest. the u.n. says they don't have the money, they need to ask international donors to give them money, there has been concern from the u.n. and the iraqi government that the international community does not have the money. look at what is going on in europe, with the refugee crisis, a lot of europeans needing the money back home. there's a funding short fall in iraq and syria. a lot of programs are being funded. the u.n. said we need 9 million toll help iraq, it's - that money is not there yet, it needs to be raised, and we have not seen the gaul of fall huge -- fall of fallujah, sparking another crisis, and iraq's second-largest city of mosul is under occupation by i.s.i.l., we'll be seeing a liberation of that city, or an operation against that city

it comes as iraqi forces try to consolidate their hold on ramadi itself.asrter: much of ramadi reduced to rubble in the ferocious battle to win it back from islamic state fighters. caught in the middle, were civilians stranded between the two sides. families have been bringing their young, old, and wanted out of the buildings were they tried to take shelter. they are not muslims, they are beasts. one man told journalists in anger and grief. another said seven people were killed by i.s. fighters when they refused to move with them to another area. there were reports that i.s. from was preventing people leaving or rounding them up and using them as human shields. explosions show the battle is by no means over. iraqi soldiers have been moving carefully through the center of the city to clear it of booby-traps and bombs. on the outskirts of the city and the areas beyond it an unknown , number of i.s. fighters remain. a potent threat. the recapture has been portrayed as a victoryment for their soldiers. notable by their absence with -- were there shia militia w

the iraqi military, backed by u.s. air strikes and allied shiite and sunni militias, had already scored their first major victory, in march. they retook the city of tikrit, 100 miles north of baghdad. in june, they drove isis out of the oil-rich city of baiji. then, last month, kurdish fighters in the north retook the town of sinjar. but the push for ramadi took seven months. and though the city center fell on monday, soldiers are still removing bombs from the rubble- filled city and searching for up to 700 militants who are believed to be hiding in the area. still, baghdad's ambassador to washington, lukman faily, told us yesterday, it's a milestone. >> retaking ramadi is symbolic, as you were just talking about, and at the same time, strategic. symbolic in the sense that we're telling the world the iraqi army is retaking initiative and that isis will be kicked out of iraq once and for all. >> warner: how long will it take them to clear the city enough so that the tens of thousands who fled, the civilians, will feel c

also iraqi interior minister condemned what happened, and said in a statement put on its website what has happened as desperate attempt. some groups are trying--some groups are trying to provoke iraqi sectarian groups against each other. ♪ >> u.s. and other world stock markets are down following a massive loss on china's market. it plunged by 7% before trading was suspended for the day. the reflection of china's continued slow economic growth. well, monday was the first test of a new stock market circuit in china, which was supposed to stock trade when the loss hit the 5%. we are any beijing. >> this was the worst start ever of the year, a new system was being used on monday, which was supposed to contain market volatility. so when the markets fell by 5% trading was temporarily halted for 15 minutes. trading then resumed. the index then fell by 7%. it seems that a system that was brought in to calm things down had the reverse affect. why i--the reverse effect. why is down? output has contracted for the tenth consecutive move and china's currency is continue to go weaken. a lot of what

an iraqi security official tells us they were taken by a gunman on friday.onvoy. we now know two of them are dual iraqi-american citizens. the third is an american national. our correspondent

it is drawing the iraqi government into a prolonged, small-scale urban campaign and means the iraqi governmentt declare victory. >> a tactic that is going to work as they look and forces look to other i.s.i.l. controlled areas in fallujah and of course mosul. >> yes. it will and it draws attention and it undermines the iraqi government's claims to have won in ramadi. i mean ramadi was there earlier this week having declared victory. but the fact that you are reporting today there is still fighting going on under mines the credibility of the iraqi government. with fallujah where fighting has been going on there for almost a couple of years and almost two years now and will continue on this small scale and what the iraqi government is trying to do is to screen these areas so that the degrade the islamic state slowly so the number of fighters that are deployed in these areas becomes lower and lower. but at a certain point the iraqi government will always and it attacks and may see an attack on mosul later this year but at that point they would hope that islamic state is down to a relatively small

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and the iraqi military and the iraqi counterterrorism forces said they have had almost no casualties. which means all of the heavy lifting was done by alliance aircraft. >> thanks very much, matt. >>> here with me is joby warrick, the author of black flags: the rise of isis. named one of the top ten books of 2015 in so many newspapers. we're still watching whether they have completed the takeover of ramadi, but if they do that, it's not only a substantive win it would be symbolic also. >> yes. it's a huge milestone. this is the first time iraqi troops are alone on the ground even though they have u.s. help. it's also a big loss for isis, because this is the capital of it's an important some bollic loss for isis if they have to turn away. >> if they are in a weakened state, if the iraqis and the americans manage to take ramadi, can they be more dangerous? >> absolutely, because we see the counterattack going on just as part of that, how desperate they are with suicide bombings, using human civilians as shields. i.e.d.s all over the place. we see the danger right there in iraq. but also

>>ition ill has said it will not give up the iraqi city of ramadi without a fit. well, now, another 15 government troops have been killed in the city center. >> that's after the deaths of at least 60 soldiers and allied tribesnen recent days. more from caroline malone. >> reporter: the iraqi army has been celebrating in retaking ramadi but it looks like their fight isn't over. ney nearly a week after control. iraqi troops are suffering new setbacks with multiple coordinated attacks by isil on various army positions around the city. in a recently released isil video, one of their fighters says they are still battling the army in the center of ramadi. these pictures appear to show the anbar police headquarters in the city of the city. al jazeera's is being told there was angisil suicide car bomb attack and, and intense she will ling near a government compound in the city. isil fighters are still in control of buildings nearby. isil used another 10 suicide bombers in attacks on the army north of the city destroying army vehicles and taking control of the division hea

an iraqi security official tells us they were taken by a gunman on friday. they were driven off in a convoy. we now know two of them are dual iraqi-american citizens. the third is an american national. our correspondent jim sciutto spoke with the state department a short time ago. >> reporter: their initial response is concern, right? this is a dangerous area, these are americans. there are a number of groups who could be responsible. of course you would be concerned about groups operating in the area, they of course would have americans at the top of their list as people they would like to take prisoner. but we don't know at this point who the group is that took them. the state department says they're working closely with the iraqi authorities to locate and contact them. in these situations they work very quickly because they know time is of the essence. so great concern. they're going to work with the iraqis. of course you have more than 3,000 u.s. troops on the ground now, those are civilians, not soldiers. the iraqis would then have the lead on this in t