thank you for that, robyn kriel on high alert in the european capitals. iraq s military saying the city of ramadi is fully liberated, including a government compound long held by isis. an official says many isis fighters either fled or were killed in air strikes and fighting on the ground. ramadi fell to isis in may in an embarrassing defeat to the iraqi army. iraqi forces and coalition air strikes have been trying to retake that city ever since. the taliban claiming responsibility for a suicide attack in afghanistan that killed at least one person. more than a dozen were injured. afghan police say a terrorist in a white pickup struck outside a school near an airport in kabul. a taliban spokesman tweeted the attack. an official says the victims were all civilians. rahm emanuel demanding changes in officer training after two more police involved shooting deaths. it follows the weekend shooting of 19-year-old man and a
engineering support 37 one of the big. est problems in dealing with isis is they ring their possessions with just an incredible array of ieds, booby traps, getting closer to isis s positions. so u.s. support in that respect and more than 600 airstrikes definitely helps. put this in perspective that took six months and there was scarily several hundre isis fighters in ramadi. although it s an important victory, it s more symbolic if you like. perspective is important here. let s talk about also around the same time the isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi released this message to his supporters. in reading bits of it, it seemed like a rallying cry to his followers. what struck you about it? what struck me is that he acknowledged that there will be hard times ahead and the whole world is now against isis, not
politics and turns people off. with the problems we are facing with beheadings by isis and faulty economy and black lives matter movement and all of the different issues out there if this is what the campaign turns into it, it will be a very sad day for us. it will be sad and interesting to see how many people stick with it at that point too. ben ferguson and errol louis, thank you both. thank you. listen. we have new images of intense fighting in ramadi. take a look at this. iraqi forces making gains to try to take back this city from isis. later this hour, peyton manning is the subject of a new documentary that claims he is part of a human growth doping ring. he is denying that but we will bring you more of his reaction next. i wanna see, i wanna see. longing. serendipity. what are the.
he tells them to, quote be patient because god is with you. cnn did not verify the authenticity of that message but we want to bring in cnn correspondent robin quil and lieutenant general mark hertling. mark, we know they are 550 yards from this compound. do we know, based on that, how close iraqi forces are to retaking ramadi as a whole? it does sound like in terms of distance, christi, that they are close, however, the issues they are facing on the ground such as boobytraps and sniper fire and the threat of injuring civilians in this fight that could be caught in the cross-fire is what is slowing them down so much. we do know that they have captured a high-level member of isis on the ground and not to be diffused with the leader of isis, baghdadi. according to officials he is providing information how many fighters are left inside.
we did understand from the information that there were 300 to 500 fighters. we know he is a foreign fighter and not iraqi so we are not sure where he is from and iraqi official haven t said but we understand a number of those fighting to the death is foreign fighters in ramadi. general heltling, i wanted to ask you about the rebel groups in syria who have seized this dam. is it better in the rebel group s hand than in isis and what do we know about this group, i guess, is the question. absolutely. this is a combination of both the ypg from the syrian kurdish forces and as well as some of the syrian arab fighters that which is very fascinating. they have taken this dam which will not only effect the water supply to raqqa, the key city that isis is call their caliphate. this will shut down that city and indicate more problems and indicators to the fighters in the town that they are, in fact,