Raw Footage: Iraqi Troops Engage ISIS Forces Near Tikrit

ISIS is claiming the upper hand in the fight for the numerous cities of Iraq

ISIS claims upper hand in fight for Iraq's cities (CBS News)

The front line in Iraq's Kirkuk province was as close as CBS News correspondent Holly Williams and her team could get Thursday to the battle for Tikrit.

The black flags of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) flew just 30 yards from Williams' position with Kurdish peshmerga fighters, and beyond that, in ISIS territory, was Iraq's main north-south highway.

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