Hezbollah: We will attack American soldiers protecting ISIS in Iraq

Hezbollah released a statement Sunday threatening that its militants in Iraq would attack US forces who are being sent to the country as part of the international coalition fighting the Islamic State group, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Alleging that Islamic State is "the stepdaughter of the Americans," the Hezbollah statement, which is quoted in the Jerusalem Post, says that the US "dispatched their ground troops to protect the 'clinically dead' body of ISIS.

"We have vanquished the American occupation with our quality and quantity in the past and we will continue attacking them, with our resources significantly increased," the statement continued.

"Iraq's streets are still filled with the ruins of their vehicles that destroyed our explosive devices, and those injured by their soldiers are still hospitalized," it added.

The statement also said that the "occupation's coward soldiers should understand that however protective their vehicles are, these vehicles will become an obstacle for them and they will burn to death inside them."

On Sunday, US military spokesperson Col. Steve Warren announced that a group of Marines would be heading to Iraq in order to bolster the international coalition fighting IS, the Jerusalem Post reports.

According to the report, an American Marine was killed on Saturday after the base he was stationed at was attacked by IS rocket fire, wounding several other Marines at the same time.
 [i24news.tv]
21/3/16
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