control future protest but is offering no specifics or timetables. police are reportedly unhappy, let s bring an end he know the victim of that attack to talk about where portland goes from here. i know once getting out of the hospital, you are out again, what do you say to folks to say you are overstating what happened to you? most people have never experienced a brain injury and i never did until the 29th of jun 29th of june. i would never wish what happened to me on anybody else. i would ask them to have the decency to just be decent human beings. let me ask you this, there are accounts and all kinds of things, you know if anyone has been questioned? have you talked to authorities about what comes next and
on the 29th of june, one of the group s governors announced a ban on plastic bags for the entire somali region of jubaland according to a statement released to cnn. the group s media officer told cnn, quote, plastic bags are a threat to humans and livestock. any person breaking the law has to be arrested and brought to the islamic court, unquote. our sources in somalia tell us there was little news coverage as this is generally taken by the public to be a joke. in fact, the somali government called it a pr stunt. the terror group s apparent interest in human welfare is of course ironic. it has actually spread death and destruction across the region. just last week al shabaab claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack on somalia s interior ministry that killed 12 and injured 19. the answer to my gps challenge question this week is a,
who drove out tens of thousands of iraqi security forces and army and policemen from the city. after that in the following weeks, one iraqi city fell after another. isis literally reached the outskirts of baghdad. what what we ve seen since then is that the iraqi army has been retrained and resupplied and certainly has been able to retake all the cities for the most part that isis took and certainly right now the last goal now is to retake mosul and, of course, it is the second largest city in iraq and, keep in mind, also, it was there on the 29th of june of 2014 that bag d declared his so-called caliphate. losing mosul will be a very deadly blow to this
be the path to isis becoming extinct. certainly from a strategic point of view, it is important. because it is the commanding city in northern iraq. the second largest in the country. it s near the syrian border. it s near the turkish border. it is iraq s most ethnically diverse city. symbolically, of course, it is the largest city that isis controls. it has a population or had a population in better times of up to about 2 million. now, however, many people have fled. what remains is somewhere between 700,000 and 1 million civilians there. it was there on the 29th of june, 2014, where the leader of isis, abu bakr al bagdadi, declared his so-called caliphate. that was the birth of isis as we know it today.
largest city in iraq. also the last real isis stronghold of major, major area. when you look at isis, the terror group in largest context, speak to me about the strategic importance of mosul falling in terms of isis holding control. they ve held control for two years. speak about the strategic importance for isis across the region. reporter: well, it certainly represents, perhaps, the largest loss in terms of important cities for isis to date. this was the largest city that isis controlled. it s where it was announced on the 29th of june the caliphate. if you look at what has happened in iraq in the last two and a half years, isis in early 2015 reached the high point in terms of its control of territory.