The analyst added that the US is portraying the ISIS militants as “enemies of the West” while two weeks ago it was supplying anti-tank missiles to them in Syria.

“ISIL is a proxy for Washington and its Western and Arab allies to wage covert war in the region for strategic objectives,” Cunningham noted, adding, “That proxy force has been directed primarily at destabilizing Syria with the objective of regime change against the Damascus government of President Bashar al Assad.”