a lot happening in iraq tonight. u.s. military advisers arrive in a town south of baghdad killing 13. a separate bomb blast killing 19. syria is killing out air strikes targeting isis. the prime minister welcomes that. cnn obtained video what life is like under isis in mosul. here is arwa damon. reporter: isis is distributing much needed cooking gas to families, even selling it at a cheaper price than the iraqi government used to. in a nation where the day to day basics are a necessity for survival, acts like this do garner goodwill but isis is implementing law. prayers for all and banning women from movements outside their home without a male guardian. arwa joins me from baghdad and in new york, a former fbi supervisor special agent.
but isis is also implementing its harsh interpretation of islamist law. obligatory prayers for all, and banning women from movements outside their home without a male guardian. arwa joins me now from baghdad. and alli sufan. iraqi military officials are claiming they have been able to make some gains today against isis. that for real? they seem to make a lot of claims that are hard to actually verify. and that s still the case, anderson. very difficult to actually obtain accurate, independent information about what is taking place on the ground. now, according to state television, according to the government, they have managed to make some gains in tikrit, saddam hussein s hometown. the government is saying that they launched air strikes and then actually air dropped special commandos into the tikrit university premises. in all, they re claiming to have killed 40 militants. when it comes to the oil
its harsh interpretation of islamic law. prayers for all and banning women from movement outside their home without a male guardian. and we just also received more video that is of what was mosul s entertainment district. this is a street that is lined with restaurants. it has an amusement park. normally it would be packed with families, but under isis it has been transformed into one of the areas where they conduct their public preachings and it is crawling with gunmen. we spoke to two men from mosul who remember that area as being a place where they used to celebrate, as filled with joyful memories for them. for them to see images of it like this, they say it pains them in a way they cannot even begin to describe. heartbreaking stories. arwa, thanks very much. arwa damon in northern iraq.