Hezdollah Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem accused the US of being unserious in its fight against the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group

Hezdollah Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem accused the US of being unserious in its fight against the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group, and stressed that Washington only means to weaken the terrorist group.

“Since the beginning, the US supported ISIL and thought that it can use the group for confronting the Islamic Republic of Iran and the regional nations to rearrange the regional structure. They attempted to overthrow the Syrian government and annihilate it by the help of this group (but failed),” Sheikh Qassem told FNA on Tuesday.

He said the US felt endangered when it saw the ISIL has grown so powerful that it has surrounded swathes of land in Syria and Iraq and was threatening Washington's interests. "And now the US is after weakening the role of the ISIL to control it but it's not after its annihilation."

Sheikh Qassem said that the United States' actual policy on the ISIL will be revealed in the next few days.