PEREIRA: Twenty minutes past the hour -- 28 minutes past the hour. Defiant Iraqi prime minister now predicting ISIS will be dealt a fatal blow in 2016. He says the terror group will be pushed out of Iraq next year, on the heels of reclaiming Ramadi. CNN senior international correspondent Nima Elbagir live to Baghdad with the latest on these strong words from the Iraqi prime minister -- Nima.</s>NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: There is absolutely no doubt that Ramadi is incredibly strategic, and it's a huge achievement post that humiliating defeat back in May when Iraqi forces fled an oncoming ISIS contingent from that city. But we still do know that there are continuing ISIS fighters, and ISIS -- pockets of ISIS fighters inside Ramadi. And we're seeing that reflected in the continuing intensive coalition strike. Seven this morning alone, claiming to have hit five tactical units. The Iraqis contend that, although the purge is ongoing, that what they've done in Ramadi is create a blueprint that they believe that they can replicate in Fallujah and in Mosul. One of the more -- most strategic ISIS cities. We're also getting reports on the ground that civilians are able at the moment, while ISIS is currently in this state of disarray, to move out of some of those ISIS territorial possessions in other parts of Anbar province into the safety of that centrally held district in Ramadi. So while the Americans are cautiously optimistic, not quite yet ready to call it fully liberated, there is definitely a sense here on the ground that there is finally momentum in this fight against ISIS. Back to you, Christine.</s>ROMANS: All right. Nima for us this morning in Baghdad. Thanks for that. The fugitive "affluenza" teen captured at a popular resort town in Mexico. Will his next stop be to prison back in the U.S.? Our legal experts weigh in next.
Iraqi Prime Minister: ISIS Will Be Out of Iraq in 2016.