back tikrit, but the second largest city of iraq mosul now needs to be taken and that s what they re going to try to do in 2016. there s a very good chance that isis will be punish pushed out over the next year. mosul is key in all of this, isn t it? yes. sure is. general, thank you. sure. and now to the race for the white house. republican front-runner donald trump continuing his onslaught against bill and hilary clinton. he had this to say this morning. that s what they said. they called him a racist. i don t believe he is a racist if you want to know the truth. they called him a race i. it was a miserable campaign. he did very poorly. they re bringing him out again. he s being wheeled out. we ll see what ps.
iraqi forces pushing them further up the river bed in effect. i m going to go back to where we are now. and this is where they were beginning of the year. in the river valleys along the tigris, they ve taken back tikrit, now the prize in mosul. along the euphrates baghdad tora ma di is now clear. you noted earlier mosul is five times the size of ramadi, so five times as difficult? well, it s going to be five times more difficult because not only that the main supply base for the iraqi army, for them to be able to fight up the river valley all the way to mosul on extended logistics line is going to be much more difficult than baghdad to ramadi. this is iraq and syria, the islamic state as they call it, isis. let s go regionally even though they ve been fought back a bit in home base, they ve expanded largely by getting affiliates in effect around the region. sure. in fact, that s probably the most important thing we can t stay focused simply on iraq and
fox news it s tree. the official says iraqis are right to recatch tour fallujah and ramadi, and there s no word on whether the out is provide anything air support. that brings to us our daily slide show. you can see iraqi forces on the way to attack islamic state positions in fallujah, or at least we re told they were in fallujah. chris, help me out here. this is either you can just do it. don t have to talk. this is the islamic state iraqis headed out. security forces, military reports both sunni and shiite fighters are helping. here are more iraqi forces near fallujah. here you can see iraqi troops firing artillery shell again fallujah. last month iraqi forces scored a major victory with they took back tikrit but the iraqi prime
think what secretary kerry referenced the iraqi government come out and say they want to take aggressive actions to take back ramadi. i remind you just a month ago with the backing of the united states with coalition forces they took back tikrit. they ve had successes. they ve taken back about 25% of populated areas. obviously ramadi was a setback, but they are committed to fighting and committed to taking back land from isis. you heard our pentagon correspondent barbara starr report that the u.s. military inadvertently shipped anthrax to nine states as well to a base in south korea. has the president been informed about what s going on, and how this could possibly happen? well obviously the president stays in close touch with all of his national security team and leaders. i don t have an update for you today. this is something as your reporter barbara starr reported that the pentagon and the department of defense is tracking closely and working on. they re obviously in the lead
this is something we do every month or so to measure that progress. this is today, may 2015 yellow areas, isis support zones. red areas under isis control. let s look to three months ago, february virtually unchanged. there are some areas where isis lost some ground around the turkish border gained some here. coalition forces took back tikrit from isis but you have ramadi falling just a few weeks later. again, let s look at the map again. today, three months ago, really almost difficult, almost impossible to detect that until the overall map changes, it is heart for iraqi forces for coalition forces to say they re making significant progress against isis. yeah the map doesn t lie. jim sciutto, thank you so much. outfront tonight, former cia counterterrorism official phil mudd and a retired colonel who serve as executive officer to david petraeus in the u.s.