TEHRAN (FNA)- The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an Al-Qaeda offshoot, intends to spread its presence to countries other than Syria and Iraq, Russian media warned on Monday.
“The social networks have uploaded pictures showing the ISIL trying to widen its presence in Cyprus, the Republic of Azerbaijan and Turkey in the near future,” the Russian-language Pravda newspaper reported.
The newspaper wrote that the ISIL intends to set up its own state in the territories that it occupies.
On Monday, a senior Syrian politician said that the ISIL has been led into Iraq by the US after its failure in Syria.
“What is happening in Iraq should be assumed as the continuation and spread of the current events in Syria and actually we should say that the events in Iraq are just a US-Arab reaction to their failure in Syria,” Council Secretary of Syria’s Popular Will Party, Ala al-Din Arafat, told FNA.
Yet, he said that the recent ISIL attacks in Iraq shouldn’t be seen as an effort by the US and its Arab proxies to show the ISIL as a powerful and influential group in the region to pave the ground for the creation of an Islamic caliphate by the ISIL in Northern Iraq and Syria.
Arafat underlined that the failure in overthrowing the Syrian government has made the US and the Persian Gulf Arab regimes to take revenge from the Shiites in Iraq.
On June 10, the ISIL militants took control of Nineveh province, including its provincial capital Mosul, in a lightning advance, forcing “over 500,000 people in and around the city” to flee, according to Geneva-based International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Nearly 1.5 million Iraqi citizens have volunteered to join the country’s armed forces to confront foreign-sponsored ISIL terrorists in their bid to destabilize and take over parts of the nation.
Iraqi authorities stated on Friday that people were rushing to recruitment centers to sign up for the fight against the Takfiri insurgents.
The volunteers consist of people from all ages and even include retired officers.
The development came after senior religious and political leaders called on the Iraqi nation to take up arms and defend their country against militants.
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