Leader of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq Resistance Movement Qais Khazali said that the US had plotted to assassinate prominent Shiite Iraqi leader Muqtada al-Sadr and put the blame on Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, but failed.

Recalling France’s massacres in Algeria and Rwanda, the Turkish president said the French president “cannot lecture us on humanity”, Anadolu Agency reported.

A secret group which identified itself as the Freedom movement claimed to have captured at least two Israeli Mossad agents in Lebanon, Aliwaa newspaper said.