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Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council derided the US-led military coalition’s so-called fight against the ISIL terrorist group as a “joke”, saying Americans are dragging their feet over hitting the notorious group due to political reasons.

“Daesh is a tool for the West to advance its regional policies,” Ali Shamkhani said in a television talk show, using an Arabic acronym for ISIL.

He then referred to the US-led military coalition’s inability to wipe out the ISIL militants after months of military strikes, noting that Americans do not bother to target the convoys of hundreds of oil tankers that ISIL uses to smuggle oil.

ISIL is nothing more than “equipment and bases”, and the West can definitely strike them with such huge capabilities, Shamkhani stated.

He underlined that the West is using the terrorist group as a pretext to sell arms and make regional governments dependent.

That 130 sorties carried out by the US-led forces in a single day hit only 12 not so serious targets reveals that their battle against ISIL is a mere “joke”, the top official went on to say.

While the US and some of its allies began to launch airstrikes on ISIL targets in Syria in September 2014, the terrorist group has not gone out of existence.

But the battle against the ISIL militants entered a new stage after Russia began to carry out bombings against the terrorist group in Syria in late September 2015.

It came after Russia’s parliament granted President Vladimir Putin authorization to deploy the country’s air force abroad.

Reports suggest severe damages to the ISIL strongholds after Russia’s aerial attacks, something that lays bare the futility of a US-led military coalition against the militants in Syria after about a whole year.

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At least six people have been killed and 26 others injured in three bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

The explosions took place in Sadr City in east Baghdad on Sunday, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said. Reports also indicate that the number of fatalities is likely to rise.

Separately, a booby trap bomb injured five other Iraqis near a local market in Abu Ghraib district in western Baghdad.

No group or individual has taken responsibility for the attacks. However, the Takfiri Daesh terrorists are often blamed for such attacks.

On Saturday, nine people were killed in three separate bomb attacks in Baghdad.

The northern and western parts of Iraq have been plagued by the Daesh terrorists, who began their spread of terror through some parts of the Iraqi territory in June 2014.

Army soldiers and Popular Mobilization Units have teamed up to take back militant-held regions.

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq says a total of 717 Iraqis were killed and another 1,216 wounded in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in September alone.

According to the UN mission, the number of civilian fatalities stood at 537. Violence also claimed the lives of 180 members of the Iraqi security forces. A great portion of the fatalities was recorded in Baghdad, where 257 civilians were killed.

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The ISIL terrorist group is preparing for large-scale terrorist operations and massacre of the Shiite Muslims in Pakistan through Pakistan’s Sipah-e-Sahaba and its military wing Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.

Sipah-e-Sahaba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and other terrorist groups supporting the ISIL which have direct links with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda play the main role in the spread of terrorist operations in Pakistan and massacre of the Shiites in the Muslim country.

The Shiite Muslims played a very important role in the independence of Pakistan from India and due to their high political status they became target to the ISIL and Saudi plots in a bid to weaken them.

The ISIL which operates in Syria could not penetrate into Pakistan, but supporters of the group were looking for reinforcing their positions in Pakistan’s big cities.

Pakistan has arrested 35 ISIL supporters so far; a Pakistani provincial commander in Sindh province announced that the ISIL supports the massacre of Shiites in Pakistan and 25 militants who launched a terrorist attack on a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims in the city of Karachi had been influenced by the ISIL to commit the crime.

Some Pakistani media reported that the ISIL has distributed leaflets among people in Karachi explaining the objectives of its terrorist attacks. The ISIL has opened an office in the outskirts of Karachi. 

ISIL has conducted several terrorist operations in Pakistan so far as follows:

1-On March 18, the pro-ISIL militants attacked a school in Nazimabad district of Karachi city

2-On March 20, Buhari sect mosque was attacked by ISIL supporters during Friday prayers which left two people killed and four others wounded

3-On April 24, a Pakistani human rights activist named Sebin Mahmoud was assassinated by pro-ISIL militants

The supporters of the ISIL have also attacked the naval and army bases as well as police stations.

On October 13, Police Chief of Pakistan’s Sindh Ghulam Haider Jamali disclosed close cooperation between the ISIL and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists groups in massacring Shiite Muslims in Pakistan.

“The ISIL terrorist group is closely linked to the Wahhabi group of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and it has helped other terrorist groups to carry out terrorist attacks in Sindh province,” the Urdu-language version of Dawn newspaper quoted Jamali as saying.

He pointed to the capture of the terrorists who recently attacked a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims in the city of Karachi, and said, “The arrested culprits have confessed to conducting 37 terrorist attacks in Pakistan.”

International organizations and rights groups have urged the Pakistani government to take decisive actions against the forces involved in the targeted killings and massacre of Shiite Muslims.

Sipah-e Sahaba’s goal is to primarily deter major Shiite Muslim influence in Pakistan.

The organization was banned by President Pervez Musharraf in 2002 as a terrorist organization under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997. In March 2012, the government of Pakistan banned Sipah-e-Sahaba again.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan removed this ban in November 2014.

The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi or “Army of Jhangvi” is an offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba and a militant organization based in Pakistan with limited operations in Afghanistan.

The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was founded by former SSP activists Riaz Basra, Malik Ishaq, Akram Lahori, and Ghulam Rasool Shah.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has been behind some of the most violent attacks on Shiite Muslims in recent years.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was banned in Pakistan in 2001. It is accused of killing hundreds of Shiite Muslims in Pakistan.

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ISIL terrorist group on Saturday released 37 Syriac Christians, most of them women, who were among more than 200 people kidnapped more than eight months ago, an NGO said.

The Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights said the group of freed Syriac Christians included 27 women and 10 men, most of them elderly.

They arrived on Saturday morning in the town of Tal Tamr in the Khabur region of Hasakeh province in northeastern Syria, the group said.

The releases were confirmed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor, which said most of those freed were from other towns elsewhere in the Khabur region.

The former hostages were among a group of 220 Assyrians captured by ISIL when they overran parts of the Khabur region in February.

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