victory in mosul announcing it s retaken the city from the terror group. hundreds celebrating the news in the streets and congratulated soldiers 0en a great victory. iraqi tv says fighting is still going on in one fwlabd tneighbo where the remaining isis fighters are holding out. and bringing in nick paton walsh. in mosul two weeks ago and cnn correspondent barbara star. nick is this truly a victory? reporter: it is, but comes with a caveat. iraq will be enduring a low-level insurgency from isis for years potentially to come. but today is the day the political symbolism kicks in. state television shows scenes of iraqi soldiers and people dancing in the streets. their prime minister, abadi, casually strolling around eastern mosul, a city just over eight months ago would have been
the demands of the customers. i m there to do the safest job possible not only for them, but everybody, myself included, that lives in the community. i m very proud to do the work that i do and say that i am a lineman for pg&e. it s a rewarding feeling. together, we re building a better california. welcome back to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. i m errol barnett. i m rosemary church. we want to update you on the top stories. iraqi forces, sunni, tribal, fighters and shia militias, staging an offensive against isis in two key provinces. the prime minister says on iraqi tv the lib raegs eration of anb imminent, his word. and shia militias working to cut
pinning their hopes on a counteroffensive by the same iraqi troops against the islamic state. conner powell, those iraqi troops had any success so far? we understand pro government iraqi forces launched a counterattack against isis near ramadi. primarily compromised of sunni tribal fighters and also irani-backed shiite militias and in the past 24 hours or so they re beginning to have some success, but a week after losing the major iraqi city of ramadi these gains today are really sort of small towns and villages around the major city of ramadi progress but hardly a game changer needed against isis. the expectation that the shiite militias these irani backed shiite militias will have an impact iraqi tv is also reporting that reinforcements are being sent these are
meanwhile, battling isis militants at country s larger oil refinery in boccauc baiji. iraqi tv reports the former right-hand man to iraqi dictator saddam hussein has been killed by security forces. he had become a leader in the so sunni extremist movement. our correspondent joins now from hong kong. to get to this issue of this man for a moment, do we know anything concrete? they claimed he was dead, never turned out. for years the u.s. had a bounty on his head, and how significant is it even if he is dead? i know he had been helping isis, but really is it a significant thing? it is important to point out that ib broo hymn ibrahim al
start a new generation of terrorists over there. and they are seeing downfall of the taliban. i agree with mitch that this was not funded by isis, but certainly under their flag. you talk about the attacks in erbil. by the way, there weral car ball, in shia neighborhoods in baghdad yesterday. all of these are indicators of isis attempting to take again the spotlight especially with the visit to the united states with the iraqi forces although this is still a tenuous fight. this morning, iraqi tv has reported that they ve infiltrated the oil refinery. how important is that refinery? is it more significant than the city of ramadi as general