this and for the latest on the military situation in iraq, we are joined via skype in iraq now by matt bradleyf the wall street journal. so why is it that the arab states very quickly got involved in yemen. it's almost a proxy war for shi'a and sunni states but that's not the case in iraq? >> well they did get involved. rather quickly in iraq. the problem was that iraq was lead at the time on june 150th when islamic state ram tagged through northern iraq. iraq was lead by al-maliki who was a personal problem for many of the sunni arab leaders in the region. so he was considered to be very closely aligned with iran but also a lot of the sunni leaders in the region simply didn't like him and didn't consider him to be a reliable partner. and now it's part of the reason why some of the sunni states such as suddenee-- saudi arabia were so reluctant to get behind malick'-- maliki effort to repel an islamic state and in some ways sort of tacitly backed the islamic state until they found out the true nature of the threat. >> srennivasan: in iraq how likely will we to see ground forces from the arab le

we're now joined by matt bradley, who has covered this region for years for "the wall street journal." and matt, you and i have been talking over the last year, the last time we met in baghdad, we heard the secretary of state's assessment about what is happening in the battle against isis. what have you been seeing? >> well, for the past several months, the administration has been flogging this idea that they're making gains against the islamic state. the battlefield momentum that islamic state first had back in june, when they took over mosul and advanced to within shouting distance of baghdad, that they had reversed that tide. there's really very little evidence to point to that. most of the gains made by anti-isis forces have been modest. they've been problematic. they've been done by shiite militia groups and others who have vested interest in trying to gain land and trying to subjugate sunnis in the western part of the country. so a lot of the on-the-ground victories have really been either very small, or some what mixed in terms of results and where this country is going. it's b

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