The hajj. Welcome to the program. The battle against fighters from the Islamic State of iraq and levant continues on several fronts in iraq and syria. I. S. I. L. Made several advances in the last 24 hours. The town, south of tikrit has seen fierce fighting between the iraqi army since friday. On the turkish border, the fight between Kurdish Forces and i. S. I. L. Continues. Imran khan sent this update from baghdad. This has been going on for a week now. When Coalition Forces hit i. S. I. L. Bases using the air strikes, and that really dispersed the fighters. This was not the effect that the Coalition Air strikes would have wanted tore intended. What they have done is pushed out the fighters away from their bases and what the i. S. I. L. Fighters have done is gone into a number of towns. They are entrenched inside the towns now. The tactic from i. S. I. L. Appears to be to get to a place where there are civilians. Over the last few days, 26 hours, is iraqi army and prosunni groups surr