it's also secured baghdad as well. many say if baghdad falls isil will have won. there are significant challenges including finding homes for these people fleeing the violence and making sure they get back home eventually. >> you've heard jamie describing the u.s. perspective on this. what's going on in iran? ash carter said that these guys showed no will to fight, despite being trained and equipped by the u.s. military. what's your sense of it? >> reporter: let me tell you what the iraqis think. look at this idea of trained and equipped. since before the fall of mosul nearly a year ago, the iraqis have complained that the americans have held up everything they need to take the fight to isil. there were isil fighters known as the islamic state around mosul. they knew they were there and complained to the americans. they said we need to hurry up the delivery of f-16s. can't you bring them here and have american pilots show our guys how to use them and train? step up the training quicker? we need them. these f-16s still haven't been delivered. the rest of the equipm

fortifying baghdad comes with a unique challenge. this is the bridge, the last safe place to cross from anbar poff towns in baghdad with the operation now under way. it's likely that we'll see more scenes like this, fears of what comes next are common here. >> translator: as long as we sunnis are marginalized the fight will take a long time. there are soup i forces willing to fight and i would be join that fight if the government accepts us. >> reporter: iraqi security forces have opened and closed this bridge at rah be don concerned that isil fighters will enter baghdad disguises as displaced people and that's only inclusion the tension in the capital and elsewhere. no doubt iraq has a huge challenge on eights hands in securing western anbar province and defeating isil. but it's not just within anbar province it's also securing baghdad as well. many team say if baghdad falls isil have won, there are also other significant challenges. that includes finding homes for these people, who are fleeing the violence, and making sure that the

baghdad provincial council member says i.s.i.l. fighters are using refugees to ipp fill freight the capital, blaming displaced sunnis fleeing fighting >>> imran khan is in baghdad and joins us. this suggestion that i.s.i.l. are exploiting the refugees situation to enable them to launch attacks - what is the general thinking on that. well this certainly is something that some lawmakers are doing, it's not an official position. some lawmakers are floating the idea. when the refugees the displaced people came into baghdad there was a lot of security and i.d.s were checked out. if you didn't have the rite idea you weren't allowed into baghdad. a lot of displaced people moved to other cares, in the south and kabula. there was a fear that i.s.i.l. would use the crisis to bring people into baghdad. there's no real evidence behind it. what has been said and other law makers said is that cars have been traced back to anbar province, but they offered no hard evidence that that happened. speaking to sunni lawmakers and community leaders, i ha

baghdad is okay. the challenge is as bob has described, it's the sunni heartland and the only one showing up in combat right now are the shia qods force, badder corps, the militia being supplied by tehran. that's the most troubling aspect we see is a broader intergenerational sectarian fight we're watching unfold. >> what of this idea bob, of forward air support. what is that and is that realistic at this point or is that just something that a minority of folks are calling for? >> you know i don't think it's realistic. general marks can comment on this but putting our troops on the front without a full-scale commitment i don't see that. the military is not going to want to do it. they can't completely trust the iraqi units and certainly can't trust the shia militias and why put our troops out there. we can't do it at this point. the fact is iraq is in the middle of a civil war, most vicious civil war i've ever seen in the middle east and it's not going to die down. the islamic state owns 50% of syria

baghdad was a mixed city. the demographics changed after many left. >> after being plunged into war, much is felt today. sunni stake to their neighbourhoods and shias to their. there's. blame game and the city will see more violence. imran khan baghdad. >>> the director of the house of iraqi expertise foundation says the government has to help the refugees and ensure i.s.i.l. fighters do not use them as cover to infiltrate. >> there's a humanitarian crisis which is obvious for anyone in the world. there's 250,000 displaced from their homes because of the fighting. and i.s.i.s. prepared their territories, this is first. secondly it's an important issue, they must have camps or support, governmental support, for the resistance to be iraqi left on the homeland. if there's infiltration of i.s.i.s. inside the refugees it's a facility of the golf to do everything to help them and try to convince them that they must fight i.s.i.s. who are infiltrated in them. if we talk about the whole security situation, in baghdad

ramadi lies just 115-kilometers from the capital baghdad and keeping isil out of baghdad is now a top priority with troops secure its outskirts imran kahn reports from the last safe place to cross from anbar to baghdad. >> reporter: iraqi forces gather to pretear to ray prepare to retake the city. it's likely to to be a long operation there are reporters of isil forces preparing to lead government forces. they will lead with the backing of shia militia man support booed by iran. and air strikes led by the united states. they are also gearing one other battles. it's feared isil could push in to baghdad. to prevent that from happening this man is securing the outskirts of the capital. the town just under 30-kilometers from baghdad is being fortified. >> translator: we are fighting a psychological war. isil have an effective media campaign against us, we have been accused of retreating. we are not. we are now backing up our troops here and preparing to take back ramadi. >> reporter: the forces here are mainly shia militia since prime minister abad-y brought in them they are flying a new

my next guest knows baghdad well. an iraq media specialist and former cnn employee who lived in baghdad for six years before returning to the united states in march. welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> i know you left before ramadi fell to isis you were in baghdad in 2014 when the terrorist group marched toward baghdad vowing to take over the city. tell me what that was like. >> i can tell you amongst my friends there was a sense of fear. nobody knew what would happen at that point. for most of us our security operation specialists basically advised us at least temporarily to get extracted. we did temporarily but then we all came back to start working again. it was definitely -- there was definitely a sense of strong concern about what was going to happen what was going to happen to our work. for me you have to understand that isis is not some abstract notion. i, unfortunately, know two people who have been beheaded one i know personally and another person lived on the same street as i did. so for me isis is personal

baghdad is a shia city. baghdad is shia. all the places they attacked are shia. this is a shia/sunni assault. >> so, we can expect more and can we expect -- i mean, isis, do you expect that isis is going to try to move in and almost take over baghdad or do you just expect that isis will just try to terrorize baghdad? >> no. i didn't say that right. listen even attacking baghdad is a victory for isis. what they have done is they have taken all of anbar anbar goes to the west. what they have done is they have taken all of anbar. they control ramadi. they control fallujah. and what they are going to do is they are going to launch attacks into baghdad -- they are really going to freak out the populist. populace. the vietnamese never took saigon. they just stayed outside of it. and in a way they controlled the way the population. >> well, it's very disturbing scenes that we're seeing out of baghdad with those two bombs at those luxury hotels. charles, thank you. >>> now to more disturbing news a suicide bomber blasting a mosque in saudi arabia and isis viciously bragg

baghdad has seen a spate of bombings in the last couple of days. near restaurants and shops in baghdad's shia neighborhood of paladea. killing five people, another car bomb near an ice cream shop killed four people in the shia neighborhood of shirea, and another killed seven people, and south of baghdad a bomb blast near a cafe killed three people. baghdad provinceial leader is blaming dislaced sunnies for those conducting the wave bombings.this is what he says, that there is a link between the recent attacks in baghdad and the displaced peams. we'llpeoples, we'll have more. coalition forces of rebel groups backed by turkey qatar and saudi arabia had been making gains if the conflict. syria last september a fact finding mission from the global chemical watchdog opcew color only gas had better than used on attacks in three villages earlier in 2014 but did not assign blame for those attacks but the u.s. and other western powers blame the government saying no other party has the ability to deliver the attacks. hashem ahelbarra has the report. >> repor

quarter of the size of baghdad or a fifth of the size of baghdad. >> but they have mosul, which has two million people. the second-largest city in iraq. >> that's a fact. >> that's a major achievement that they have there. mosul, ramadi and now they're moving beyond jane they're moving beyond iraq. they're moving beyond syria. in libya, right now, isis apparently is taking control of a key air base. what's going on in north africa. >> peter said it they're on the move. and they have capacity and a number of countries, some are estimating dianne feinstein says they're in 12 countries. that's a lot of countries. and they're not that powerful yet in other places but their tradecraft is better than anyone else in those countries. air war ace loan won't stop them. >> they're also moving decisively in saudi arabia. take credit right now, bob baird, for the assault at a mosque in saudi arabia this friday last friday another mosque killing a lot of people injuring others. what's their goal here? >> they want to destabilize the royal family wolf. with the war in yemen, that's causing an enormous

in baghdad. thanks for joining us. we start with new important advances by isis one in iraq and one in syria. first in syria where isis militants have taken control of a keyboarder crossing. it was the last one held by syrian government troops. iraqi troops still hold their side of the border and in iraq isis has captured a key city between ramadi and baghdad. those isis fighters are moving closer to habania a major military base for iraqi security forces and iran nan backed shiite militants. thousands of civilians have fled isis' advance in ramadi but many are trapped at a key bridge unable to make the trek towards baghdad. our senior correspondent arwa damon is live in baghdad right now. why are those refugees unable to get to baghdad? >> well simply put, because today the government decided for reasons that have not been fully disclosed to us even though we have been asking about it to close the bridge. this bridge was open yesterday for refugees but only those who have a sponsor in baghdad province. this is a bridg

baquba which is north of baghdad. >> we keep hearing they won't take baghdad but they have taken other places they said they wouldn't take. when you look at baghdad and you understand that city so much better than most of us do, help us understand how fortified is that city? and what is the risk of it falling, truly? >> well, i will never say never. i learned that a long time ago whenever you're talking about conflict, all sorts of things could happen. baghdad is a very secure city. the majority of the population is shia. they have the vast majority of the iraqi security forces are stationed in and around baghdad, and there are great defense around the city. so i think a march by isis on the city, i don't see that occurring. but you never know. and i think you're going to see continued fighting, not only in an around the baghdad belts as we used to call them, but also this fight in anbar process is going to go on as we mentioned last weekend it's going to go on for weeks, if not months. >> so what about the iraqi forces? you mentioned this perimeter that iraqi forces have around baghda

militants into baghdad. police in malaysia find 139 graves at border detention sites used by people trafficers. they could contain bodies of hundreds of migrants. >> sierra leone marks a grim anniversary, it's one year since ebola broke out in the west african country. in iraq a fresh battle is brewing over the strategic city of rammedy which islamic state militants captured a week ago in a major setback for baghdad. >> i.s. is now reinforcing its positions as iran backed shiite militias sad vance on the city from the east and the south. the u.s. has criticized iraqi troops for lacking the will to fight i.s. dismissing that though the iraq priments said rammedy would be captured within days. >> thousands of yeemings are fleeing the air -- thousands of refugees are fleeing the area. >> thousands of refugees surge across this bridge over the euphrates river. many are carrying as much as they can with them while others have left everything behind in rammedy. >> we've suffered so much. all our property and our a

normally we have seen car bombs go off in the out skirt of baghdad. in the center of town they are quite rare. these bombs look place in near hotels that are seemly being secure. there are checkpoints, you have to get through seven check points to get there. your i.d. is checked. the cars are search the the sheraton hotel and the other ho toll have high security the fact that these bombs were able on get and explode in such a high security area is going to be a problem. >> all right imran thanks very much for now imran kahn reporting for us from baghdad. ♪ >>> now, fifa boss sepp blatter is refusing to resign despite the deepening crisis at football's world governing body. he has told the opening of fifa's congress that he cannot be held responsible for the corruption scandal which saw sefo visuals arrested in zurich on wednesday. a vote on friday will decide if blatter gets a fifth term at fifa's president lawrence lee reports from the headquarters of fifa in zurich. >> reporter: if you ever been on the moon since tuesday night you would be forgive

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imran khan is live from baghdad. who exactly is blaming i.s.i.l.? >> well, what we are hearing from is certain shia law makers, particularly one, who says that oil fighters are disguising themselves as displaced people coming into baghdad and mounting attacks. this man is a shia mp. he said that there was a car traced back to anbar and said that that is proof. he is not providing concrete proof to the media to suggest that that is the case. sunni lawmakers refute this. i've been down to some camps housing the displaced, and what they are saying is look around you. these are women, children young babies housed in the camps. they are not i.s.i.l. there's a blame game between certain lawmakers and certain sunni members, and what people are saying is the sectarian nature is hyped up. that is very worrying. >> if it is i.s.i.l. how significant would that be? >> i.s.i.l. claimed responsibility for the attacks. according to social media sites used in the past. they were saying they were behind the attacks on thursday and sunday which took place. it is sign

s baghdad, is the u.s. strategy against the terror group now at a serious crossroads? we'll take you live to iraq next. also a stunning and disturbing revelation from the family behind the reality television show "19 kids and counting." the duggares' eldest son apologizing over accusations of molestation. ♪ building aircraft, the likes of which the world has never seen. this is what we do. ♪ that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. >>> isis has just claimed responsibility for this. what you're looking at is the aftermath of a bloody suicide bombing at a mosque in u.s. ally saudi arabia. today isis terrorists are continuing their bloody march towards the iraqi capital of baghdad. they're claiming yet another steppingstone along the way. first taking ramadi six days ago. now a town near a major military installation. president obama, though saying quote, i do not think we are losing this war. the maps paint a very different picture. last year this was the isis presence across the region. groups

attack baghdad. we are losing this fight today. >> i think he said that the other day. but i want to correct myself because it was a former cia employee under president bush who said that look it's possible that isis could win here. and the question is mark, whether they are winning because you look at the city after city after city they have taken and it looks like they're just amassing control, they're on the march. >> no they are absolutely winning. look the united nations just reported that there's been a 70% spike in jihadists coming into iraq and other theaters mostly into iraq. over the last nine months. what's happened over the last nine months. the obama administration's bombing campaign. osama bin laden famously said that when people look at the strong horse and the weak horse they're attracted to the strong horse. who looks like the strong horse in iraq today? they would -- not only have they withstood the best of barack obama's best shot our bombing campaign they are advancing under that.

in baghdad, it would be the final negotiation. it need to be that there's no -- there's not any event or any problems happen from this province to baghdad. they can have reconciliation between their people easy. maybe there's some problems with some parties or some groups of the e shia with those out in mosul. it's more easy to solve that problem in the provinces and we can get, as i said, the model, and i believe that iraq will stay in their province and should until it becomes a federal country which would get its autonomies, allies to, their problems be inside their province. >> several follow-ups, but i'm going to turn to the doctor first for his overview. >> >> demonstration, calling for a region for occupation by militia, for example, this gives impression not partner. needs real solid confidence building. it needs not only promises, but we have to go into election plan and detail how to restore sunni to bring them back to the political, and they are ready, but no one trusts everyone. not trusting the other, but, i mean all

fortifying baghdad comes with unique challenges. this is the bridge the last safe place to cross from anbar into baghdad. with the operation now underway it's likely we'll see more scenes like this. >> translator: as like as we sunnis are marginalized the fight will take a long time. i will join the fight if the government accepts us. >> reporter: iraqi security forces have opened and closed this bridge at random. and they is only increasing the tension in the capitol and elsewhere. there is no doubt iraq has a huge challenge on its hands, but it's not just within anbar province it's also securing baghdad as well. many people say if baghdad falls then isil have won, but there are other significant challenges including finding homes for these people fleeing the fighting. >>> a retired iraqi army brigadier general says crucial changes need to be made on the ground. >> [ inaudible ] is so crucial in order to achieve the success required in the operation, so why we need command and control. many many sources. that's what you have just m

baghdad. isis also taking credit for a pair of deadly bombings today at mosques in yepmen and inside the home of a vital u.s. ally saudi arabia. our correspondents analysts and guests are standing by with the latest on all the breaking news. we begin with a surprising new revelations in these washington mansion murders. our justice correspondent pamela brown has been going through the court documents. pamela authorities think daron wint the man arrested overnight, may have had significant help? >> reporter: absolutely right. the court documents we've been looking at suggest that wint who was arrested overnight in a massive police takedown could not have acted alone allegedly kidnapping and holding the savopoulos family and their housekeeper hostage 17 hours before brutally stabbing them and setting their house on fire. others were involved in the elaborate shakedown of the family one involving asking the family's assistant to go to a nearby bank withdraws 40ds,000 in cash and deliver to the ca

in baghdad it would be the final. it need to be that there's not any event or any problems happen from this province to baghdad. but they can create their reconciliation between the people easy. maybe there are some problems with some parties or some groups over the shia with those who are in mosul. so it's not easy to solve that problem and the provinces and we can get, as i say -- [inaudible] i believe that iraq will stay in their problems and deal it becomes a real federal country which will give its autonomy, the rights to arrange their problems inside their province. >> there are several follow-ups but i will turn to rafe first. >> the participation -- demonstration counts, calling for average and occupation is an example. it needs real solid confidence building. it needs not only promises. we have to go into an action plan in details how to restore sunni to bring back. but no one can trust, everyone is not trusting the other one. but i meet all these things taken by sunni on the constitutional region competence

it opens up the gateway to baghdad. it is also a defeat for the white house according to "the wall street journal." it is proved that barack obama's halfhearted war against the islamic state is not going very well. and "the wall street journal" is critical of obama's policy against islamic state. it says halfhearted wars rarely end in victory. molly: another top story is the ongoing migrant crisis in the bay of bengal. an unowned number of people -- an unknown number of people trying to drift from myanmar to indonesia and china. flo: a french paper reports on what is happening on the boats. it is unclear how many there are. at least seven of them with hundreds of migrants. a chilling quote which actually spoke to a witness of what is happening on the boats. it likens the boats to slave boats. people are severely malnourished according to survivors that have made it onto the shore. the same survivors report about deadly fight on board over food. a horrible situation you can read more about. molly: aid agencies are talkin

troops. >> it was shortly past midnight baghdad time. and i was walking past the open window and coming down from the sky, the black sky, it looked like silver paper. i knew instantly what it was. it was chafe. radar jamming chafe. >> tonight the battle has been joined. >> and as soon as that chafe started filtering down to the ground, all hell broke loose. >> saudi arabia. >> i need the white house. >> i was walking by the control room and i could hear the r the commotion. i walked in and there it was. >> our team in baghdad was restricted. they weren't going to get much information. the only thing they could do was report what they were seeing. >> but it doesn't show me signs of it. >> we have to go to baghdad, secretary. we're going to bernard shaw in baghdad. >> this is -- >> of my mouth came the words -- >> something is happening outside. >> you're damn right something is happening. war is breaking out all around you. >> the skies over baghdad have been illuminated. we're seeing bright flashes going off all over the sky. >> the wall

baghdad - we are working on the assumption that baghdad will not fall. it will require saudi arabia or the regional powers do that. we are talking 80, 90, 100,000 troops to make a difference that we couldn't get there on time. >> let's talk about saudi arabia, and i want to ask you about the suicide attack on the shia mosque. 21 dead, 120 others injured. a group that says it's a branch of i.s.i.l., it claimed responsibility, and they called themselves saudi arabia central region including riyadh what do you make of this attack why is it significant. >> i.s.i.l. is executing global strategy perfectly, maintaining positions, coming up with affiliates within the north africa and the middle east. it's warning of a social media campaign, and getting recruits. it's disrupting saudi arabia going for a one-off trips that has the authority and legitimacy and that will cause them to focus internally. there has been attacks in many of the countries, attacks in saudi arabia how significant is this one, is this one different. >> it's different because it will light t

that could well be the nightmare scenario for baghdad's government. cnn, beirut. >> the european union is now stepping up its fight against human traffickers in the mediterranean sea. a naval operation will set out to capture human traffickers off the libyan coast and destroy their boats. it could start in june. >> this is in response to the huge number of people fleeing violence at home in the middle east and africa. the united nations says some 51,000 migrants have crossed the mediterranean into europe this year. more than half of them ended up in italy. >> translator: i'm thankful to italy. i want to tell the rest of the european union to try and see how they can help italy to cope with this. we didn't come here to steal from you. we came here to help clean up the country, clean up europe. >> italy's coast guard says it rescued 2,400 migrants just last thursday. earlier, we heard how to stop people from boarding these boats in the first place, he's the director general for the international organization for migration. >> we can help by trying to se

you will give them to baghdad, but then baghdad sits on them, doesn't give it to us because we are sunni, arabs in the mosul region. but we could push isis out but you won't do it. >> it speaks of competence. speaks to the fact that the white house and the way the pentagon are currently handling this situation is being totally bungled and with lethal consequences. >> again because it is not a defined war. the president doing less than a lot of people in congress want him to do there is very little appetite amongst americans for us to go further. >> when you see the persecution of the christians there and other people there the appetite gets a little bit bigger. arm them and don't put boots on the ground is what this government says is the solution. >> long argument. air strikes and limited steps. the only way to get things moving further in that direction is for americans to feel threatened by this and they don't on our soil. >> at least not yet. right? >> exactly. >> it's rather grim. anyway. panel, thank you very much. and now sister and others in her convent in iraq escape isis terror

it is also securing baghdad as well. that isil at once, they are all hoping other significant challenges that including finding homes for these people that are flying the violence and making sure they get back home eventually. al jazeera. on the outskirts of the province. and it says the opening code name given to the new ramadi offensive is unhelpful. >> the air force has carried out an attack on an isil held military base, the state news agency said 140 fightingers were killed at the air base in isil strong hold. ice skill seized the base in august. al jazeera cannot independently verify these reports. >> activists say several people have been injured after the government planes attack add refugee camp. the government forces reportedly dropped six-barrel bombs on the refugee camp, which is home to some 6,000 refugees. isil fighters also attacked last month. saudi arabia says one civilian has been killed in the city, which is near the yemen border. five others were injured wile in northern yemen, seven members of one fa

now the city is only 115-kilometers away from the capitol baghdad. reports from the outskirts of the province. iraqi us and forces gather preparing to retake the and i that fell to fighters more than a week ago. it is likely to be a long operation. there are reports of forces preparing to meet government forces. many of which are supported by iran, and air strikes from a coalition of countries led by the united states. the army is also gearing up for other operations with the full of ramadi and isil in control from syria into am barr, it is feared fighters can push into baghdad. to prevent that, this man is securing the outskirts of the capitol. the tongue under 30 classroom can tores away is being ft.fies. we are fighting a psychological war isil has an effective pead yeah campaign against us. we have been accused of retreating we are not. >> since the prime minister brought them under the command of the iraqi government, they fly a new flag each militia has it's own identity but all fight under this banner including this sunni fighter group fort fi

is founded and taking over a city 60 mills from baghdad. can the iraqi army beat i.s.i.l. without u.s. troops. i'll be back in 2 minutes. >> tomorrow. you know his music but what about the man? >> i was given a gift. >> up close and personal. behind the scenes of the biggest hits. >> she was a troubled girl. >> brightest stars. >> kids don't want to "own", they just want to "play". >> and the future of music. >> the record business is in trouble. >> every tuesday night. >> i lived that character. >> go one on one with america's movers and shakers. >> we will be able to see change. >> gripping. inspiring. entertaining. "talk to al jazeera". tomorrow, 6:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >>> just 60 miles wests of baghdad sits the iraqi city of ramadi, as of this hour, it is controlled by i.s.i.l., an i.s.i.l. onslaught forced security forces into a chaotic retreat over the weekend. the latest fighting displacing 6500 families in the area, according to the united nations. iraqi officials are not admitting defeat. we have a report on how iraq is preparing to take back ra

but it is also securing baghdad as well. if people say if baghdad falls then isil have won. but there are other significant challenges that includes finding homes for these people who are fleeing the violence and making sure that they get back home eventually. >>> our senior political analyst joins me in the studio to talk more about this. let's talk about the recent back and forth between the u.s. and iraq the u.s. defense secretary accusing the iraqi army of not having the stomach for this fight. how much is this damaging the relationship between the two? and how is impacting things on the ground? >> when that kind of bickering starts you know things aren't going very well hazem. the blame game are a sign that things are not going well. it's good to remind our viewers around the world, that the prime minister and the president met in washington only several weeks ago, back in april, and they agreed that reconciliation between shia and sunnis is a priority and going after isil is the big thing for -- this is the main task. clearly the prime minister has failed on both front

alliance that may be formal in some sense going forward but clearly that's what baghdad -- when baghdad is turning around and tehran is there to help. >> and bigger picture, when all is said and done what will that mean in iran does in the end have major influence of what happens in baghdad? >> that's a discussion point. what we are seeing is the bulkization in iraq, and you will end up with a kurdish peace, and baghdad will have some type of an arrangement that exists and then a sunni peace now defined sadly by the isis caliphate, the emerging caliphate, which is what they are trying to create and that becomes the enter generational fight. it's a very vicious and bar baric conflict. >> general, thank you for your insight. appreciate it. >>> still to come in the "newsroom," a pay to play scandal rocking the world cup soccer. top officials accused of corruption. >> reporter: from across the globe to pick a new president, and and instead facing the biggest crisis in the sport's history. more for you in just a moment. does your makeup remover take it all off? every kiss-proof cry-proof, st

ft.fying baghdad comes with a unique challenges. this is the bridge, the last safe place to cross from anbar province into baghdad with the operation now underway, it is likely we will see more scenes like this fears of what comes next are common here. >> as long as we sunnies are marginalized to fight will take a long time. there are sunni forces willing to fight and i would join that fight if the government accepts us. >> security forces have opened and closed this bridge at random, concerned that isil fighters will enter baghdad, and that's only increasing the tension. >> there's no doubt that iraq has a huge challenge on it's hands. and defeating isil. but it is not just within anbar pro vince, it is also securing baghdad as well, many people say that if baghdad falls then isil will have won but there are other significant challenges that including finding homes for these people who are fleeing the violence and making sure they get back home eventually. al jazeera on the outskirts of anbar province. >> one of iran's top military

>> reporter: well, it is important because it's one of the gateways in to baghdad. and they are fortifying that town in, this attack took place 15-kilometers outside of the town an army convoy travel to go back up the iraqi forces. and that's when the car bombs and the suicide bombs look place we can don't know specifically whether it was suicide bombs and car bombs we dough no that car bombs were used and isil have used this tactic to devastating effect before car bombs are proving to be is a aiyegbeni very dig problem for the iraqi security forces. don't forget when isil took over the town of ramadi they used six car bombs to split the security forces and that's how they were able to enter. lots of people are asking

baghdad spend a decent amount on arms. in 2012, baghdad concerned with arms uprisings, it signed an arms contract with moscow. russia provide bilateral trade is bilateral trade is returning to pre-saddam levels turn over $2 billion. there's a renewed focus on agriculture, transport and infrastructure. and baghdad and moscow can benefit >>> correspondent rory challands is covering the meeting for us. why has haider al-abadi come to russia? >> well the main issue that the countries are talking about is military cooperation. iraq wants russian weapons basically to continue the fight against the "ultimate 8," and russia is concerned that the spread of the islamic state may affect the southern borders. russia has been happy to provide baghdad with weapons. last year it sent the first consign. attack aircraft. more are expected to come. iraqi sources say that in the future they are considering a future arms deal with russia words some $3 billion. this is a mutually beneficial relationship for both countries at the moment. >> any

we're not going to to let baghdad fall. i think it's fair to say that baghdad is okay now as arwa indicated but what we see taking place in anbar is incredibly troubling because it adds to that caliphate that isis is creating. >> well, we've been saying that baghdad is okay for now. it's always that "for now" afterwards. think about this last week, we were sitting here talking about al sayyed. a week ago. we've seen the fall of ramadi. we've seen the fall of palmyra in syria. moving towards baghdad, again, i think people are looking at this and wondering, can we do this via air? or are we going to have to send troops in on the ground? >> christi, really good point. it cannot be -- you cannot achieve the objective to defeat or degrade isis from the air. it just isn't going to happen. we know that. you can hold isis to a certain degree. but again, you have to create a ground presence and the strategy that the united states has taken in place is that iraqi forces are going to do that. united states has yet to build a coalition

continues to edge closer to baghdad. it's now taken the crossing the last syrian held border crossing between iraq and syria which sits on the main highway between baghdad and damascus and in syria itself i.s.i.l. fighters are reported to have spread across the ancient city of palmyra going door to door executing as many as 150 suspected assad government loyals and we report now from baghdad. >> reporter: some of these men will be sent deep into iraq sunni heart land to fight i.s.i.l. others will stay behind to protect it a strategic town that iraq and levante has tried to control in the past and for the malitia men it's not just about recapturing territory, they are protecting roots from and bartow southern iraq to prevent an i.s.i.l. attempt to advance on shia holy sites in the neighboring provinces. >> translator: i volunteer to join this battle to protect our holy shrines, we don't want i.s.i.l. to advance and threaten the shia holy sites. >> reporter: it was a controversial decision to use malitia men in the provinc

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there's no way baghdad will fall. are there growing concerns about baghdad? you have troops isis in fallujah and ramadi. >> 70 miles away. you are spot on. there is concern. the conventional wisdom, you know in the public arena is look you know isis stays to its sunni stronghold it's not going to risk going to baghdad, it doesn't have the firepow e to go to baghdad, they'll never do it the shia will rise up. they're just never going to do it. got to tell you, people i am talking to in the administration again, watching this very carefully, they are worried there will be a new round of isis terrorists attacks inside baghdad, and watching for that mass of potential isis combat power. could they get on the road could they try and go to baghdad? that's where really the problem comes in for the obama administration. they simply cannot let baghdad fall. >> yeah. >> anderson? >> a lot of american personnel in baghdad, itself. barbara starr, appreciate. thank you. syria's civil war now in its fifth year has killed some 300,00

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or it is really defending baghdad at this point in time? because the -- the expansion of isil has been so dramatic over the last several weeks and months that it's clear for many in baghdad that the surprises, the attacks, and -- and so on and so forth by isil could eventually lead to certain breakdown that could bring it to the outskirts of baghdad. >> wow, okay. so defense secretary ash carter have a point when he says the iraqi army doesn't have the will to fight isil? because they clearly have the manpower to do so. >> let's put it this way. the iraqi army has as much will to fight as much as america has a will to fight. this is what you call in so many ways the clash of wills. it's really a very transparently childish recrimination between washington and baghdad, where each one of the sides now is trying to say it's the fault of the other, when both sides know that they have both failed in the fight in iraq. the foot soldiers find no reason for them to die in a war that they know is not their war. >> but they will suffer the consequenc

in baghdad it will be the final relation. it need to be that there is no any event or any problems happen from this province to baghdad. but they can make their reconciliation between their people easy. maybe there are some problems with some parties or some groups of the shia who are in mosul. it is easier to solve the province and we can get the -- as the model. i believe that iraq will stay in their problems and quite until it become a real federal country which will get its autonomies, the rights to arrange their problems inside the province. >> several follow-ups, but to dr. rafe first for his overview. >> the sensation of sunni, participation in the political province and everyone is an exile. awakening assassination. demonstration attacking them. calling for a region occupation. so all this givens them impression that sunni are not partner. they need solid confidence building. it need not only promises we have to go into an action plan in details how to restore the sunni to bring them back to the political. they are in

baghdad is afraid to do that. haider al-abadi wants to do it but lacks the shia militias or parties that are more beholden to iran than the iraqi sunni brothers. >> thank you very much. good to get your thoughts on that. michael pregent former u.s. intelligence officer and military advisor. >>> other developments in iraq - fighting is continuing in and around the baiji oil refinery the largest in iraq. 300km north of ramadi. this footage, posted by iraqi army personnel shows a suicide car bomb close to the post. the refinery was recaptured from i.s.i.l. in november but the iraqi army failed to secure it, with resources stretched by fighting elsewhere >>> over the border syrian troops are pushing i.s.i.s. back from a u.n.e.s.c.o. site. almost 300 have been killed since i.s.i.l. attacked the desert city. the attack has been foimed but i.s.i.l. forces are nearby -- foiled, but i.s.i.l. forces are nearby. elsewhere the government has been accused of dropping barrel bombs containing chlorine gas. two villages were targ