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The US-led airstrikes purported to be against the Takfiri ISIL militants in Syria and Iraq are in fact part of an American-Israeli scheme to re-infiltrate the region, an analyst tells Press TV.

“The anti-ISIL coalition is nothing more than a fig leaf for the American-Zionist scheme to re-infiltrate and impose their hegemony on the region,” Jonathan Azaziah, a political analyst and founder of mouqawamahmusic.net, said in an interview with Press TV from Montreal on Wednesday.

“The plan is not to defeat ISIL; it is not even to contain ISIL; the plan is to keep it spreading across the region so the Americans, the Israelis and their puppets will have excuses to intervene in the affairs of the Islamic world for years to come,” he added.

Azaziah went on to say that the only places where ISIL is actually being defeated consistently is where the Syrian army and the Iraqi army and Iraqi volunteer fighters are engaging the Takfiri ISIL terrorists, and that liberations of towns and villages have been in areas where no American air cover is present.

The ISIL terrorists currently control swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq. They have been committing heinous crimes in the captured areas, including mass executions and beheading of local residents as well as foreign nationals.

Since late September, a US-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against the ISIL inside Syria without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate. The coalition had already begun an aerial bombing campaign against the Takfiri terrorists in Iraq in August.

This is while many of the countries in the US-led bombing coalition, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have been the staunch supporters of the Takfiri ISIL elements in the region.