Report:

ISIL Bans Own Militants From Hitting US-Led Coalition Warplanes

Rasa - The ISIL terrorists in Mosul have been ordered to try to identify flying objects before starting air defense measures to avoid shooting the US-led coalition warplanes, the Arabic-language service of Russia's Sputnik news agency reported.

News ID: 425097

Date: 16 November 2016 - 18:16

RNA - The ISIL documents retrieved from their captured bastion in Qaraqosh of al-Hamdaniya to the Southeast of Mosul said that its militants are banned from targeting airplanes in Mosul region and its surrounding areas, the Arabic-language service of Sputnik cited an ISIL document as saying, reminding that the US-led coalition is in charge of air missions in Mosul.

Most combat and reconnaissance flights in Nineveh province are also conducted by the US-led coalition warplanes.

The Iraqi officials and lawmakers have on different occasions criticized the US-led anti-ISIL coalition for not doing enough in its fight against the ISIL terrorists.

In mid-November, a senior Iraqi legislator dismissed the US-led international coalition's claims that it is helping Baghdad in anti-terrorism campaign against the ISIL, and said it has done nothing more issuing a number of statements in the media.

"Iraq doesn’t need foreign forces to fight against the ISIL, and the international coalition and the Arab countries have not helped Iraq in this regard," Mohammad Naji was quoted by Iraq's al-Ma'loumeh news website.

"The international coalition and the Arab country's assistance is confined to issuing media statements and they have not taken any practical steps in this regard," he added.

Naji said that his country needs military and arms aid rather than lip service.

Also earlier in November, Commanders of the popular forces in Iraq lashed out at the US-led coalition for hindering the operation to fully liberate Mosul.

"The popular and resistance forces are not pleased with the US-led international coalition's presence in Nineveh operations since they do not coordinate operations with the popular forces in the Western front," Spokesman and a senior commander of Iraq's Kata'ib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Battalions) popular forces Jafar al-Hosseini told FNA.

He said that the popular forces have called on the government to exclude the US-led coalition from the Western front.

Also, Spokesman of Iraq's Seyed al-Shohada Battalion, a branch of the popular forces operating in the war on ISIL in the Mosul operation, Hassan Abdolhadi, told FNA that "when the popular forces enter a battle, they finish the job as soon as possible but, unfortunately, the international coalition has delayed the operations by jamming their telecommunication equipment and disrupting exchanges".

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