he says that will also give a boost to the troops trying to retake mosul. the militants are launching counter offensives with suicide bombers and chemical weapons and using humans as human shields. >>> more people are freeing the areas near mosul as government forces step up offensives to retake the city. about 200 families have arrived at a refugee camp east of mosul in the past two weeks. a man who recently arrived there says islamic state fighters fear the u.s.-led coalition's air strikes. he says many civilians take advantage of that confusion to flee. another man says he was wounded and his friend was killed as they tried to escape. he says he holds out hope mosul will be liberated. >>> one of the year's biggest stock issues has been approved in japan. gene otani brings us the details and other business stories. >>> the tokyo stock exchange has approved the initial public offering for messaging app operator line. executives at the firm want to raise money to expand overseas. the japanese company's 5-year-old free messaging application is ranked by some

he says that will also give a boost to the troops trying to retake mosul. the militants are launching counter offensives with suicide bombers and chemical weapons and using civilians as human shields. >>> more people are fleeing the areas near mosul as government forces step up offensives to retake the city. about 200 families have reportedly arrived at a refugee camp east of mosul in the past two weeks. a man who recently arrived there says islamic state fighters fear the u.s.-led coalition's air strikes. he says many civilians take advantage of that confusion to flee. another man says he was wounded and his friend was killed as they tried to escape. he says he holds out hope mosul will be liberated. >>> a kurdish militant group is claiming responsibility for a car bomb attack in istanbul. the target was a police bus. the bomb went off in a parked car on tuesday as the bus passed by. the kurdistan freedom falcons is a militant group operating in turkey. he they said ate tack was a retaliation. the group has claimed responsibility for wednesday's bomb attac

>> i think they were going to go up to mosul, villages. it's pretty sparse country there, anbar province. you just can't hide from the u.s. air force. they're too advanced. they can watch these people and, again, listening to the phone and communications. you know, mosul, it will fall one day. i agree with juliette. it's just going to fall and so will raqqa. i also agree we're going to see this movement spread out in places we do expect it like yes, ma'am -- yemen or libya. the sunni are lashing out at the west and there's no easy solution to it period. >> everybody stay with me. when we come back, breaking news, major air strikes on isis in fallujah. cameras take us inside more than ever before but can we learn anything from the tale of the tapes that will help us prevent the next attack? ♪ ♪ p&g. proud sponsor of moms. which saves money.rance a smarter way, like bundling home and auto coverage, which reduces red tape, which saves money. when they save, you save. that's home and auto insurance for the modern world. esurance, an allstate c

for their own people of mosul. the same thing with fallujaha.lute the armies who are fighting today and making great progress in the city of fallujaha. we just liberated a couple important bridges and a couple of other bridges coming from the main street and hopefully the next couple days or maybe three or four days hopefully we'll have the news that fallujaha will be free of isis. a lot of people asked me just last night when we get some report the battlefield has been slowed down just a little bit because we let the civilians get out. we've been making an announcements left and right with the helicopters telling the civilians to get out and there's protection next door in tikrit to have protection for the families and children. a lot of people wish to stay just to help isis to be honest. hopefully these folks will get out and the battle will slow for the last 24 hours or so just because that way it will give them a chance to get out. people ask me, what is our organization? we are dominated by individuals, different brigades. each and every of

charlie: the prime minister wants to march towards mosul.ou retake it within the six months that this in administration has? mr. biden: it depends on a number of things. thegs that relate to ministry. i talk to the prime minister all the time. i am his phone pal. he is solid. he believes in a more federated system. he tried to set up national guards in anbar and elsewhere. he understands the need for autonomy. he is reaching out. he's beent problem getting, he wants us to equip the sunni tribes to help. coming from the shia militia that i want any part of it. it would take two things to retake mosul. we have to get our allies involved. we can't leave chaos behind. and non-governance and a great exodus. like we did in tikrit. folks came back. come back,ble to by and large. there has to be a modus vivendi between the kurds and baghdad. that is being worked on. here is what has to happen. you can have the pmf which is the shia militia. they can be part of it as long as they don't go into the cities. charlie: and they are doing most of the fight

you were talking about how did these guys capture mosul. how did these guys come across the border and capture mus ul, what is going on. everybody is worried that if they were able to consolidate land and power, all of a sudden why did the saudis start to pay attention. they realizedded kingdom was in trouble. they may take down the government, occupy that land and territory. the notion that you would have a quawsi-state being able to topple entire states was something everyone is concerned about. that is not within the power of daryb to do now nor isil to do now. but what is within its power to do, to have a cell with 17 people or four people, with three million dollars or five million dollars, planning a program where they find two suicide bombers who are going to try to figure out how to smuggle into the united states or into europe to blow themselves up and cause chaos and havoc. that is something we are going to be dealing with for a long time. and the only answer to that, charlie, is intense incense-- intensified intelligence and cont

i was one of the girls who were enslaved in mosul. i was among one of the thousands of women taken to mosul. the first thing they did in mosul was to, after distributing us to the fighters, was to take us to the court and have us convert by putting our hand on the koran. [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> translator: it is true that i was raped and soiled and abused, but i was lucky. i wish that everyone from the 6,000 women and children was like me because girls at age of 9 were raped as well. only in two hours in my village, more than 700 men were killed, among them were six of my brothers and the same day my mother was killed, too, for no reason, but for having a different religion. i am not saying that isis represents the islam, but isis is using the islam to commit its crimes. we need to stop the ideology first. many people in the area had a choice to leave when isis came, but they were happy to join the islamic state when they came. there are many things for me to testify about and tell you today, just the time is limited and

other areas of control, and are we in a position where we can attack dash simultaneously in mosul and anbar, for example? >> so, daesh right now their strategic strength is drawn by the administration of that conflict. and so, in terms of protecting that, they're drawn increasingly into a tactical effort to hold and defend the ground against the iraqi security forces in particular. who will only grow in strength, confidence and capability over time. and they have to make a judgment as to the extent they're prepared to give the territory to the caliphate in terms of the preserving firstly critical combat, to protect their strategic centers of gravity, particularly mosul and raqqa. and secondly, the weight of effort that they might then allocate to an indirect approach, which would see them mutating slowly to a high-end insurgency. and at the moment, they're demonstrating a degree of ambidexterity. they're clearly able to run large suicide truck bombs into baghdad. that's effective in destabilizing iraqi government, and it leads to the transfer of combat forces from the battle field and

now in mosul. the city of my mother, and i'm in touch with them, they said they would rather to die than to live under isis. they need help. they need help. they need the whole world to wake up and please come and help us and save us. so we have the status quo. we terminated isis, we finished isis, and after one week, two week, one month, they're going to come back again. when you have a termite, you tend the building, you terminate the termite. and isis and al qaeda, if you want to destroy them in iraq, you have to destroy them in syria. you cannot do half jobs. you have to do complete jobs. it has to be a package totally. i know i'm limited in time. i know i'm limited in time, and i do have the signal light the time is over. okay? but we have a question and answer at the end of the program. the muslim imam represents imam hosseini, the american islam. he was invited national -- the dnc, they invited him one time, and it is on all the news, talking about, you know -- and he's very well-spoken, one

mosul is a bigger challenge with 85,000 people in fallujah, isis melted away as they said but mosul is different, with two million people, same long haul with regard to getting ready to attack in urban environments, with i.e.d.s and civilian populations held hostage. they will melt away, that is what is happening. >> fallujah, obviously, as we all remember, in honor of 100 troops who gave their lives, the ultimate sacrifice in fallujah back in 2004 the bloody and horrible door-to-door battles and now it has been re-captured. talk about mosul. what is the timeline? do you foresee a time when islamic state can be driven out of iraq and then you have to deal with syria. >> i don't think -- the timeline, this fall, in not sooner, you see different tactics of isis as third pounded 16,000 airstrikes so far a team effort with regard to the american air power and 65 nations in the coalition, taking it to isis. it is not good to be isis on the ground. syria is different. what we will see and what i am concerned, isis continues to lead the battle space in iraq and goes to different places like i

can mosul be taken down as well, and what kind of pressure can you bring on rocca?, you just cannot focus on this. you have to keep the focus on islamic state elements in libya that became quite troublesome. you can't let the nascent islamic state in afghanistan develop any critical mass. keep an eye on yemen. he handle the rest. and all of the rest. by and large there is pretty coherent effort that is now ongoing and that is starting to bear fruit. charlie: thank you. mr. petraeus: great to be back, charlie. thanks. charlie: general david petraeus. back in a moment. ♪ ♪ charlie: mt. everest is earth's highest mountain, standing at 29,030 five feet above sea level. since the first ascent in 1953 by sir edmund hillary and tenzing norgay reaching the summit has been considered one of the greatest achievements in mountaineering. to accomplish this task without the use of supplemental oxygen is even more remarkable. this month two american climbers attempted to do just that. together they documented their journey in real-time on snapchat under the user name everest no f

can mosul be taken down as well. and what kind of pressure can you bring on raqqa. but again, you just can't focus on this. you've got to keep the pressure on the islamic state elements in libya that became quite woreisome and troublesome. you can't let the islamic state in afghanistan develop any critical mass, keep an eye on yemen an all the rest. and by and large, there is a pretty coherent effort that is now ongoing and is starting to bear fruit. >> rose: great pleasure to you have here. thank you. >> great to be back, charlie, thanks. >> rose: general david petraeus. back in a moment, stay with us. mount everest is earth's highest mountain standing at 29,035 feet above sea level. since the first ascent in 1953 by sir edmund hillary and tensing norgay, reaching everest's summit has been considered one of the greatest achievements in mountain earring, to achieve this task without supplement oxygen is even more remarkable. this month two american climbers adrian ballinger and cory richards attempted to do just that. together they documented their journey in realti

we will push them out of mosul. we will push them out of raqqa. thethis underpinning of ideology, where anyone who disagrees with them deserves to god. that is what they believe. it is crazy. that will be with us for a while. we have to defeat them, but we also the our partners in the gulf and saudi arabia to fight , andideological battle they are doing so. senator sheehan: thank you. senator corker: if i may, we continue to hear, like from qatar, how they went to more fully and to the battle on the ground, if you will, and, of course, we hear lots of things. unless we see something, it is not real. they then talk about how the u.s. -- they have concerns about the united states' committment. us come withwith saudi arabia and others joining us more fully on the ground? mr. mcgurk: so i have been in the gulf a lot in the last year, and the saudi's are very focused on the conflict in yemen, and as we hope, the peace process would begin, and the conflict will begin to wind down. there will be an increasing daish.on ofhave heard these requests a possib

mosul is the second largest city inside iraq.efore the government can really claim a foothold and a long -- and a long battle against isis. but we got realize that mosul is about five times the size of fallujah and about five times the distance from baghdad. it's going to be hard to logistically support it. they're going to need more forces to take it. >> one of the biggest challenges i know even when the u.s. was on the ground there is the issue of urban warfare, particularly cities like fallujah and mosul. over 3,500 civilians died since fighting began in 2014. are the efforts on the ground to try to get people out of harm's ways proving to be effective, and what role can u.s. air strikes play when you're dealing with a density populated area? >> well, the presence of civilians inside of large cities always make it far more difficult. the advantages you have from air power are to a great extent are taken away. it requires street-to-street, house-to-house fighting. the menemy is using civilian shield makes it difficult. the abil

army's 3rd squadron, 3rd armored cavalry division are on patrol in mosul, iraq. captain conrad brown is on command. >> mosul was mostly al qaeda insurgents that had been pushed out of the sunni triangle in the presurge 2006/2007. they had taken root in mosul. >> it's the sixth straight day of around the clock operations. the men are exhausted. >> we'd been up for about 36 hours at this point, and we're making our way back to our combat outpost. >> the battle worn neighborhood is known as an insurgent hot spot. >> the terrain favored the enemy immeasurably. the bombed out buildings were difficult to see from the windows. narrow alleys leading up to those roads and those particular intersections. >> but on this day the major supply route for both u.s. and iraqi forces looks clear and the squadron decides to take it. >> i got it before every attack, that pit in my stomach. that's why i decided to take out the camera and start filming, just based purely on hunch. >> staff sergeant jason catrel is acting as lead scout standing up through the hatch of his bradley fight

secondly, fallujah and mosul, is this going to allow them to -- >> the tax code effort will defend the grown against the iraqi forces who will only grow in strength and capability over time. we have to make a judgment as to which we see the job and territory of the caliphate in terms of preserving critical combat, particularly in mosul and most of iraq. and secondly, it might allocate an indirect approach where why taking it to a higher insurgency. at the moment they are demonstrating a degree of dexterity and able to drop trap bombs in baghdad and that is effective in destabilililizlili iraqi forces and leads back to baghdad for protect the city. their ability to sustain both the conventional and the irregular effort is something that will become a balance of resource over time. i don't know if it correct for activity toward mosul and up the valley to try to supply iraq and syria. i think it is important to view daish a wide network that includes overwhelming with with what it is confronted. it is difficult to allocate resources against these pressure points particular when they are b

andmily and mosul held me made for me an islamic id. with that, i could escape from mosul. chairman johnson: you mention the 30 do hundred additional girls who were captured. are they dispersed throughout syria, and iraq at this time? ms. murad: [speaking foreign language] >> yes, they are everywhere. they are not in a specific place. they are being stored, and their places will be changed from one place to another. dingrman johnson: we are hol questioning to five minutes because you have so many members attending this. i do want to go to the doctor, a real scholar in islam. tothere any way for us understand, how did this violence get to that point? what happened? you, she mentioned -- she was saying that they don't represent islam, but use islam. but they are using islam wrong. they brought her to the court a meter swea -- and made her qu'ran, but that is not how you are converted to islam. the prophetic texts say "fear the supplication of the oppressed." he never mentioned it is a muslim or not a muslim. defenderaid "i am the of the religious minority against the muslim t

andmily and mosul held me made for me an islamic id. with that, i could escape from mosul. chairman johnson: you mention the 30 do hundred additional girls who were captured. are they dispersed throughout syria, and iraq at this time? ms. murad: [speaking foreign language] >> yes, they are everywhere. they are not in a specific place. they are being stored, and their places will be changed from one place to another. dingrman johnson: we are hol questioning to five minutes because you have so many members attending this. i do want to go to the doctor, a real scholar in islam. tothere any way for us understand, how did this violence get to that point? what happened? you, she mentioned -- she was saying that they don't represent islam, but use islam. but they are using islam wrong. they brought her to the court a meter swea -- and made her qu'ran, but that is not how you are converted to islam. the prophetic texts say "fear the supplication of the oppressed." he never mentioned it is a muslim or not a muslim. defenderaid "i am the of the religious minority against the muslim t

the iraqis are gearing up for the attack on mosul. going to be a long, drawn-out operation, because they have to go far north with a lot of assets to take on isis. but this hurts isis and will make the effort in mosul a little easier. but it's still going to be a very tough battle. >> in the wake of the deadly terror attack on istanbul's airport, there's been much talk about a united global fight against isis that would include nations that have been more reluctant to join at this point. how likely is that, and how might it work? >> well, i think we're going to see more nations coming together, because this really woke a lot of people up, and it shows that isis is morphing into a different organization. no longer are they a caliphate. they are losing ground every day. the lost of mosul and raqqah are predetermined, it's just a matter of how long it will be. many other nations will join the fight, because they know this will not be localized, it will be coming to their doorsteps. >> rick francona, thank you very much. >> good to be wit

mosul is complicated. there's arabs and kurds.allocated in their budget 15,000 local fighters from the northern province to be part of the mosul campaign, we are working very hardly with government of baghdad to organize and coordinate the entire effort. that is very much underway and, of course, we won't put time frames on it but we feel pretty good about how it's coming together. i mention as it's important defeating on isil, we are not just focused on defeating and not think about what comes next. we are focused on the day after isil. as a global coalition, we have been able to pull resources and i think we hit on a very effective mechanism which is really revolutionized the post conflict, post conflict stabilization effort. returning people to their homes after a conflict like this is one of the hardest things to do historically. we looked historically, it can take years if ever. tecrete is a sunni city, the entire population now 95% of the population according to un statistics has returned to the city, that is because we have

that's taken the effort away from mosul. there's no timeline on we then u.s.ition and the iraqi troops will move on mosul. could be as late as next summer. >> thank you. back in a moment with a look at the birth of a long-time american tradition that is now almost vanished entirely. and it happened on this day in history. ooh... >>psst. hey... where you going? we've got that thing! you know...diarrhea? abdominal pain? but we said we'd be there... woap, who makes the decisions around here? it's me. don't think i'll make it. stomach again...send! if you're living with frequent, unpredictable diarrhea and abdominal pain, you may have irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea or ibs-d - a condition that can be really frustrating. talk to your doctor about viberzi. a different way to treat ibs-d. viberzi is a prescription medication you take every day that helps proactively manage both diarrhea and abdominal pain at the same time. so you stay ahead of your symptoms. viberzi can cause new or worsening abdominal pain. do not take viberzi if you have or may have had panc

>> i don't think the coalition is interested in stopping the terrorists from raqqah to mosul or mosulo raqqah. and i think it is not a rumor, but it is an established fact that some of the weapons were dropped to the terrorists earlier on, really, and not only once, more than once. i believe that the space for terrorism between raqqah and mosul is the same space, and therefore, we should fight it together. and that's why i said i can't see why the russian federation and the united states cannot join hands in fighting terrorism both in syria and iraq. this would be the best way if we honestly, if everybody honestly believes in fighting and defeating terrorism. the problem that i face and the problem that we all face, and now it is confirmed to me by the questions of the respectable audience, is that there is no honesty in handling this issue, and there is a lot of rumors that are taken as a fact. unfortunately, investigative journalism is no longer here, and i can see that rumors are making up the minds of so many of the respected journalists, which is a shame, which really is costing

a result isol is under more pressure and loses key leaders including the senior military leader in mosul. including isol's military leader in the anbar province and the top isol commander in fallujah. isol continues to lose ground in iraq. in the past two months coalition support has routed the town of -- and iraqi forces have surrounded fallujah and begun to move into the city, meanwhile in the north iraqi forces continue to push up the river valley making gains and now preparing to tighten the noose around isol in mosul. isol has lost half of the territory it has controlled in iraq and will lose more. isol continues to lose ground in syria as well. assisted by our forces, the coalition of local forces is pressuring a key town. and that means it's pressured around rocka as well. isol is on defense and it's a full year since isol has been able to mount a successful operation in either syria or iraq. as isol continues to lose territory it continues to lose the money that is its life blood. as a result of our strikes against the oil infrastructure and supply lines, we believe we have cut t

, of -- isis takeover of mosul. he called on all muslims, but in arabic. that was the official language, but those who answered were shia. and now, again, we have seen that what began as sort of a call to fight isis has evolved with iranian support, encouragement and funding into shia violent militias that have displaced sunni communities in iraq from their homes, and they can't go back. >> guest: and you know very well as well -- [inaudible] be not more of human rights organizations -- >> host: and they did a fantastic report. >> guest: the violations of the dignity, the killings by the sectarian militias against sunnis. it is a tragedy. we might end up with a scenario where isis is defeated militarily in iraq, but iraq is lost for good. >> host: right. >> guest: because of the sunni/shia divide. many sunni now, sunni community in iraq are really pressed between a rock and a hard place. and many have chosen to say with isis not because they like the ideology. they don't believe in this ideology, but because of the

there are a million people still in mosul.ere are different ethnicities and we want to make sure everybody is working together. here, i give the governor a lot of credit. localave allocated 15,000 fighters to be part of the campaign. we are working very closely with our partners and the government of baghdad to organize and coordinate. that is very much underway. we will not put time frames on it but we feel pretty good how it is coming together. timet, i mentioned it last but it is so critical as we are focused on defeating isil we are not just focused on defeating them and then not thinking about what his next. we are focused on the day after isil. this is where as a global coalition has been able to pull resources -- i think we have hit on a very effective mechanism which has revolutionized the post-conflict stabilization effort. returning people to their homes after a conflict like this is one of the hardest things to do historically. it could take years, if ever. sunnirit, it is an iconic city in the heart of a mixed prov

if you look at what's happening in mosul right now, there's an operation happening south of mosul intion for forces to try to take back mosul. today mcgurk did not say when they might happen but what he did say is isis' days in mosul are numbered. again, we just learned this past week that fallujah, that iraqi forces have now taken back fallujah. so what we're seeing is that land is going away, and what u.s. officials are expecting is that we will see more attacks. and they've also mentioned that we'll see more attacks on western targets. >> leah, thank you. >>> the house committee investigating the deadly attack in benghazi released its report today after a two-year, $7 million investigation. the eighth investigation to date. the authors of the report make no new accusations and produce new evidence of wrongdoing against the then-secretary of state hillary clinton. but they do blame the obama administration, the cia, and the military for responding too slowly to that attack. quoting from the report, despite president obama and secretary of defense leon panetta's clear orders to depl

. >> reporter: this is an area about 80 kilometers south of mosul. the front line base of iraqi troops. the iraqi forces have deployed a number of armed vehicles at the base. they are gearing up for a battle to recapture the strategic city. >> translator: we expect that we'd be able to completely recapture mosul sometime between late this year and the first few months of next year. >> reporter: the courageous soldiers fighting alongside the iraqi forces are that of domestic. one of the reason, they attack with chemical weapons. these attacks have increased since march. but there aren't enough masks to protect the soldiers from the poisonous gas. >> translator: the coalition has just provided those gas masks to peshmerga. however it's only 15 sets for 1,000 soldiers. this hospital is located near the command headquarters. since march, soldiers complaining about symptoms of mustard gas have arrived at the hospital in growing numbers. after a mustard gas attack blisters develop on the skin. if the gas is inhaled it would result in trouble breathing and

this includes salmon al-sha heeb the military senior leader in mosul.nd el-sadani who plotted exterior attacks and malib in the anbar province malear al-halari the top isil commander in fallujah. so far we have taken out more than 120 top isil leaders and comeafers. our message is clear -- commanders. our message is clear, if you target america and our allies, you will not be safe. you will never be safe. isil continues to lose ground in iraq. in the past two months, local forces in iraq with coalition support have liberated the town of rutba and have pushed up the euphrates river valley and breaking up the siege of a city there. and iraqi forces have surrounded fallujah and have begun to move into the city. meanwhile, in the north, iraqi forces continue to push up the tigris river valley, making gains around notmor and now preparing to tighten the noose around isil in mosul. all told, isil lost half of the territory it once controlled in iraq and it will lose more. isil continues to lose ground in syria as well. assisted by our special tration operatio

we've seen it in tikrit and we expect to see it in mosul. they're already working to choke some of those areas off. and fallujah is only 40 miles from baghdad. you don't want isis to escape to close to the capital. >> elise, you mention all these different operations but how successful have coalition air strikes been? >> i think the coalition air strikes have been helping iraqi forces and iraqi forces have been very successful, slowly but surely they are making great advances against isis. we saw it in tikrit, we saw it in fallujah and now the big push is going to be on mosul, hopefully u.s. officials hope sometime by the end of the summer or sometime in the fall. unfortunately, as we seen, as iraq suffers as isis suffers these losses on the bmario bat e battlefields, the u.s. working with the sunni kurds and arabs to try to push isis out of the northern part of the country on the border with turkey, as you've seen isis losing ground, you've seen some of these terrible terrorist attacks and u.s. turkish officials are pointing the finger at i

i was one of the girls who were enslaved in mosul. i was among one of the thousands of women taken to mosul. the first thing they did in mosul was to, after distributing us to the fighters, was to take us to the court and have us convert by putting our hand on the koran. >> translator: it is true that i was raped and soiled and abused, but i was lucky. i wish that everyone from the 6,000 women and children was like me because girls at age of 9 were raped as well. only in two hours in my village, more than 700 men were killed, among them were six of my brothers and the same day my mother was killed, too, for no reason, but for having a different religion. i am not saying that isis represents the islam, but isis is using the islam to commit its crimes. we need to stop the ideology first. many people in the area had a choice to leave when isis came, but they were happy to join the islamic state when they came. there are many things for me to testify about and tell you today, just the time is limited and i don't speak english. i wish i co

ites -- isil continues to lead key leaders, this includes a senior military leader in mosul, the man who plotted exterior attacks, isil's military leader in the anbar province, and the top isil commander in fallujah. so far we've taken out more than 120 top isil leaders and commanders. and our message is clear: if you target america and our allies, you will not be safe. you will never be safe. isil continues to lose ground in iraq. in the past two months, local forces in iraq with coalition support have liberated the western town of rugba and pushed up the euphrates valley and breaking the isil siege of haditha. iraqi forces have surrounded fallujah and begun the move into the city. meanwhile, in the north iraqi forces push up the tigris river valley making gains around macmor and preparing to tighten the noose on isil in mosul. all told isil have lost nearly half of the populated territory it once controlled in iraq and it will lose more. isil continues to lose ground in syria, as well. assisted by special places forces, the coalition of local forces is now pressuring the key town o

they've city got mosul, which is a very important city in iraq. but there have been inroads made against them. now it is very plausible in some kind of placement distraction to their losses against the enemy in the middle east, they're taking the fight to the infidel. they're taking the fight to us. whether it's in orlando, san bernardino, or now in instanbul. >> maajid, what is your understanding of their thinking. as they lose territory, would they expand their attacks, or do you believe they'd be expanding in this way and going after these different targets irrespective of what has happening in iraq? >> no. i think the two are linked. i would also add that there's a broader geopolitical aim. isis knows full well that it can sow the seeds of chaos through such attacks in the west and in turkey. so let's take this attack today in turkey where up to 50 could be dead. now, that will have reverberations not just obviously inside turkey and for those tragically who have lost their lives and generally for the turkish people. but also across europe. ju

in an interview a woman who says she escaped from mosul claims the militants used to marry and divorce women several times a night, in order to justify multiple rapes. catherine herridge has the news from washington. >> reporter: fox news reviewed a interview and transcript proceed bid i an advocacy group. the president says the woman in her 30s was sobbing and shaking throughout the discussion. >> show wanted her story to be -- she wanted her story to be heard so we asked the united states to do what is best to stop this genocide. >> reporter: after the terror group took control of mosul the woman said her husband disappeared. she left her two older children in the care of neighbors and along with a new baby began searching for him and he was identified as clip and repeatedly abused. >> interpreter: if he got bored of me he would trade me for another girl. what wedding? for them it was aing we but what kind of wedding is this? >> reporter: the woman whose identities being shielded said that she was, quote, married or divorced as many as eight or nine times, just in one evening, to jus

the iraqi military now turns its sights to the even bigger challenge of retaking mosul. wedeman has the latest on that. >> reporter: somewhere in that scrum is iraq's defense minister. he flew from baghdad with a gaggle of iraqi media in tow. isis, they say, is just a 15 or 20-minute drive away from here. the black smoke on the horizon, officers say, is an attempt by the extremists to obscure the vision of iraqi and coalition aircraft. iraq has been very publicly gearing up for the liberation of mosul, the mother of all battles in the country's war against the group. the plan sounds simple enough. what they're going to do is work on driving isis out of the towns and villages like this that surround mosul before finally going into the city. and they'll be doing it with a little help from their friends like these american and british advisers in the operation center nearby. as preparations mount for mosul, there are american boots on the ground and perhaps more to come, supplementing the well over 3,000 already here. and when will this much anticipated offensive take place

mosul is a sunni city kind of but they're fighting for who? for the people of mosul. the same thing with fallujah. we salute the iraqi army. we should that be amused who are fighting today and making great progress in the city of fallujah. we just liberated a couple of bridges, and a couple of the ridge coming from the main street and hopefully the next couple of days, hopefully or maybe three, four days hope we will have the great news that fallujah will be free of isis. a lot of people asked they just last night when we get some reporters, slow down a little bit just because we let these civilians get out. we had to make an announcement left and right with helicopter saying all civilians get out, and this protection next door in tikrit. that protection for the families for the children, a lot of people wish to stay just because to help isis to be honest with you. hopefully these folks will get out and the battle is just so for the last 24 hours or so just because that we will give them a chance to get out. people ask me what these organizations. dominate by groups,

they've city got mosul, which is a very important city in iraq.ut there have been inroads made against them. now it is very plausible in some kind of placement distraction to their losses against the enemy in the middle east, they're taking the fight to the infidel. they're taking the fight to us. whether it's in orlando, san bernardino, or now in instanbul. >> maajid, what is your understanding of their thinking. as they lose territory, would they expand their attacks, or do you believe they'd be expanding in this way and going after these different targets irrespective of what has happening in iraq? >> no. i think the two are linked. i would also add that there's a broader geopolitical aim. isis knows full well that it can sow the seeds of chaos through such attacks in the west and in turkey. so let's take this attack today in turkey where up to 50 could be dead. now, that will have reverberations not just obviously inside turkey and for those tragically who have lost their lives and generally for the turkish people. but also across europe. just

the next big step is the city of mosul, much harder proposition. that will be the next job. once we take away mosul, take away falluja, we will lamp up the bombing campaign against rocca and work on syrian territories of the islamic state. this will be a 12 month, 18 month process that will land squarely on the desk of the next president to get this done. john: the dean of the fletcher school, retired u.s. navy and former supreme commander, supreme allied commander. thank you. neil: 7 more fallout from the bombshell report on benghazi. the findings clearly point the finger of blame at hillary clinton. >> now they got a terrorist attack and have to mislead the american people. 56 days before an election their legacy is on the line and the goddess of history is looking over her shoulder so they mislead the american people. i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, yo

that leaves the city of mosul in northern iraq as the last big isis strong hold in that country. more on this with lieutenant mitch utterback. and thank you for joining us. >> thank you, heather. >> as we mentioned fallujah was the first city to fall to isis in 2014 and prior to that 2004100 u.s. troops who died there at the hands of al-qaeda insurgents and 1000 were injured. clearly it is significant in terms of a symbolic meaning. but is it a strajic win as well? >> it is a tactical victory for baghdad, heather. fallujah was the last bastion of isis control in the anbar province and deadly attacks were launched in baghdad. it was very, very destructive suicide attacks. they had to eliminate the threat in fallujah and used most of the iraqi special forces. >> what role did the u.s. play in taking back fallujah? >> well, the u.s. role in this goes back to 2003 when we advised the iraqi special forces. they took the fight in fallujah and fighting throughout the country in the fight against isis. and the the partner advising made the iraqi special forces the best in the middle east