US protects ISIL: Nasrallah

Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah, said that the United States is using its Air Force to protect the militants of the ISIL terrorist group in Syria from the Syrian Armed Forces.

"The United States protects ISIL in several Syria's regions and prevents the Syrian army to end with the terrorists, by using aircraft," Nasrallah said Sunday, as broadcast by Al Manar TV channel.

The Hezbollah leader said that the Syrian army and the troops loyal to Damascus should mop up the country's territory from the terrorists, because otherwise the militants would continue their attacks.

According to Nasrallah, at the moment the ISIL controls only relatively small territory in Syria in the vicinity of the country's border with Iraq.