Ramadi the capital of iraqs Anbar Province. And lets go to cnns Senior International correspondent arwa damon in baghdad. Is isis being pushed back . Is isis losing ground . Those are two assertions that the white house was making last week to sort of cool down all of the secondguessing thats been taking place here in washington. What can you tell us from the ground there . Reporter first of all, one has to continuously keep in mind the battle lines here are constantly shifting and small chunks of territory do regularly go back and forth. Following the fall of ramadi a week ago, isis did push into other smaller towns located to the east of ramadi. Now, the Iraqi Government has managed to recapture some of them but not only on its own. You had a unit that was comprised of the iraqi army, plus, and was arguably the deciding factor in this, the Popular Mobilization units and that is this Iranianbacked Shia paramilitary force. And it was largely due to them that they were able to accomplis
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