US should join ME powers against ISIL

A political commentator says the United States should unite with the neighboring powers of Iraq and address the ISIL threat to the region.

“If the US was sensible, it would be conducting talks with neighboring powers like Iran and Turkey and saying ‘look, let’s go and clean up here. You do it and we will back you up in every way we can,’” said Ian Williams, senior analyst at Foreign Policy in Focus, in a phone interview with Press TV on Tuesday.

But the US does “not want to intervene” in Syria and “they have plenty of excuses” for that. They could have done it a year ago, said Williams.

The United States has announced a plan to send spy planes into Syria to track ISIL militants who have captured large swaths of territory in neighboring Iraq.

Meanwhile, the United States has begun sharing intelligence with the Syrian government about Takfiri terrorists’ deployments.

“The cooperation has already begun and the United States is giving Damascus information via Baghdad and Moscow,” an anonymous source close to the issue said.

The source also said that the US has started reconnaissance flights over Syria.

The Obama administration has elevated ISIL as “enemy number one” for the United States after the terrorist group beheaded an American journalist James Foley in Syria.

Earlier this month, the United States launched airstrikes against the militants who have overrun parts of western and northern Iraq. The strikes came several months after the group began its attacks in Iraq.

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