the terror group and a huge loss for syria s government and in particular syrian president bashar al assad. also the capture of ramadi as you laid out, as you talked about, julie, the capital in anbar province also a huge gain for isis. isis took control last week. so far an ximtestimated 50,000 people have fled heading towards baghdad. we ve seen images of heading over a bridge that goes over the euphrates into anbar province and we ve heard of hurns being killed and isis militants essentially executing anybody trying to escape including women and children. so the indication at this point is that while isis has tried to push to the east we also heard, as you mentioned, that iraqi troops launched a counterattack, took control of a town outside of ramadi and indication perhaps, that a major ground offensive may be in the works. we ve been waiting for that. also as we know julie isis