Iraq: US Forces Facilitating ISIL's Movements in Anbar Province
TEHRAN (Basirat): The Arabic-language al-Ma'aloumeh news website quoted Head of Anbar Province's Liberation Council Hamid al-Hayes as disclosing that the ISIL terrorists are operating in al-Rutbah region in Western Anbar under the US forces' backup.
The US is trying to prevent Iraqi security forces and the popular forces of
Hashd al-Sha'abi from defeating ISIL via providing supports for the terrorist
groups near al-Rutbah, the news website added.
It went on to say that ISIL has intensified its activities in Anbar province as
the US forces' bases, specially the main US base of Ein al-Assad, are near the
town of al-Rutbah.
The Arabic-language website of RT quoted Iraqi Border Commander Major General
Hamed al-Hosseini as reporting in early July that the country's forces gained
control over 600 km of border line with Syria.
The report further said that the Iraqi forces' control over the entire
borderline with Syria killed the chance for the terrorists to infiltrate from
Syria to Iraq.
The Arabic RT further said that the Iraqi forces set up a number of monitoring
towers and erected entanglements to seal the border from triangular region
between Iraq, Syria and Jordan to the Northern banks of the Euphrates River near
the town of al-Qa'em in Western Anbar province.
The report went on to say that the remaining pockets of ISIL were operating in
some deserts in Syria near the border with Iraq.
Source:defapress
