reporter: well it seems right now, they re really focused on trying to beef up their presence in a number of key locations around ramadi for example, state television saying that currently government troops backed by these iranian-backed shia paramilitary forces and the sunni tribes do have ramadi sur rund on all sides. but the battlefield is really a patchwork of very different chris crossing front lines. and they exist both in anbar and saleh hadiya. we were went to one of the two provinces. there we were there with paramilitary units. they were trying to cut off a key isil supply route for territories that it controlled. when this particular unit moved in yesterday morning, as this operation commenced, they did