Video | US choppers transferring ISIS terrorists in Iraq

In yet another manifestation of Washington’s scandalous complicity with remnants of the Daesh (ISIS) terrorist group in Iraq, new footage has emerged apparently showing the transfer of the members of the Takfiri terror outfit by US helicopters across certain regions in the Arab country.

The video, which went viral in Iraqi media on Thursday, vividly showed Washington’s role in moving Daesh terrorists by US Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters inside Iraq.

An informed source recently leaked information to the Iraqi media that US Chinook helicopters are constantly moving “unknown and suspicious” elements inside the country.

The source said that the observation of US moves in Iraq over the past five days showed “two Daesh transfers by US helicopters” in the Hamrin Mountains near the city of Baquba, the capital of Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, and around Canaan Desert, 30 kilometers east of Baquba, as part of a “highly confidential operation.”

Sabereen News, a Telegram news channel released on Thursday a video of two American helicopters in an area of Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk while moving a number of terrorists.

Sabereen said the video showed American AUG-122 helicopters transferring “three Daesh elements” from the scene of clashes with Iraqi army forces near the village of Birmehidi in Kirkuk Province.

The US embassy in Baghdad has yet to comment on the video or the role of US forces in supporting terrorists in Iraq.

Iraqi anti-terror groups have repeatedly released footage of such moves and duplicitous acts by American forces, who have over the past two decades launched a military campaign under the pretext of countering terrorism across the Arab country.

Qassem al-Kuraiti, a PMF leader, said last year that thermal cameras installed in the country’s central province of Salahuddin had recorded US military helicopters transferring Daesh terrorists to various locations across the country.

Iraq declared victory over Daesh in December 2017 after a three-year counter-terrorism military campaign, which also had the support of neighboring Iran.

The terror outfit’s remnants, though, keep staging sporadic attacks across Iraq, attempting to regroup and unleash fresh violence.