"The increasing number of terrorist acts, which are conducted in line with Washington's destabilising strategy in Afghanistan, indicate the expansion of the circle of terrorist measures in this country," Raisi made the remarks in the cabinet meeting on Monday.
He referred to recent terrorist bombings at a mosque in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar, saying that "such attacks are carried out with the purpose of creating discord, war and religious bloodshed", Xinhua news agency reported.
The rulers of Afghanistan are expected to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the nation's security, Raisi was quoted as saying.
Iran's Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that Tehran will host a ministerial meeting on the situation of Afghanistan in near future.
The suspects were arrested from the Red Fort area on Thursday night, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Special Cell, P.S. Kushwah said.
Kushwah said the arrested were suspected to be associated with the global terror network's Jammu and Kashmir franchise.
The group is not known to have physical presence in Jammu and Kashmir and the state police have been denying that IS militants were operating from there.
However, a loose group of young men would often be seen waving black flags, used by the IS, in the Kashmir Valley.
The Russian airstrikes destroyed an IS strongpoint in the town of Albu Kamal near the Syrian-Iraqi border, killing about 40 militants from Tajikistan and Iraq, said the ministry's spokesman Igor Konashenkov in a statement, Xinhua news agency reported.
Russian jets bombed an IS command post, eliminating about 80 militants in the town of Mayadeen in Deir al-Zour province, one of the terrorist group's last footholds in Syria.
In the Euphrates Valley south of Deir al-Zour, the Russian air force killed more than 60 foreign mercenaries from the Commonwealth of Independence States, Tunisia and Egypt.
In addition, Konashenkov confirmed the deaths of three IS field commanders in recent Russian air attacks in Syria, including senior leader Abu Omar al-Shishani.
The Iraqi army, paramilitary Hashd Shaabi force and the border guards force advanced in the vast desert area to free the Akashat village and to clear nearby areas, which is part of Iraq's Anbar province, Xinhua news agency quoted a senior military official as saying.
Akashat is located some 370 km west of Baghdad. It has a population of around 5,000 and was built as an industrial village in 1985 attached to the local phosphate quarry.
The phosphate production was seriously disrupted by the UN sanctions after 1991 and the 2003 war. It has currently stopped operations due to the presence of the IS.
Iraqi aircraft also dropped thousands of leaflets on the area to inform the people that the liberation is soon and to tell IS militants to choose the Iraqi forces and get a fair trial or death by the security forces
Earlier, the Iraqi security forces dislodged IS militants from the key cities of Anbar province, including Ramadi and Fallujah, but the areas near the border with Syria, including Aana, Rawa and al-Qaim as well as the vast rural areas across the province are still under the control of the extremists.
According to intelligence reports, the US-led coalition aircraft conducted an airstrike on an internet cafe used by IS militants as a headquarters in the town of al-Qaim near the border with Syria, leaving some 20 of them killed, Nouman al-Zoubaie, commander of the army's 7th Division, told Xinhua.
Another airstrike destroyed an IS post in the city of Aana killing six militants, Zoubaie said.
In addition, an international airstrike bombed a booby-trapped vehicle and killed its driver, he added.
In a separate incident, a booby-trapped car detonated at a busy intersection in Karrada district in central Baghdad, leaving a civilian killed and five others wounded, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The airstrikes in western Iraq and Baghdad car bombing came as the Iraqi security forces, backed by anti-IS international coalition, are carrying out a major offensive to drive out IS militants from their major stronghold in the western side of Mosul in northern Iraq.
Acting on intelligence reports, the coalition aircraft on Friday attacked an IS hideout at a desert in al-Baaj area near the border with Syria, the media office of the Joint Operations Command said in a brief statement, Xinhua reported.
The airstrike resulted in the killing of 10 extremist IS militants and the destruction of their hideout and their vehicle, the statement added.
The security situation in Iraq was dramatically improved after Iraqi security forces fully defeated the extremist IS militants across the country late in 2017.
IS remnants, however, have since melted in urban areas or resorted to deserts and rugged areas as safe havens, carrying out frequent guerrilla attacks against security forces and civilians.
The extremist IS militants attacked Hashd Shaabi positions near the town of Khanaqin, some 165 km northeast of the capital Baghdad, Sadiq al-Husseini, head of the security committee of the provincial council, told Xinhua on Thursday.
There was no immediate report about IS militants who fled the scene after the arrival of reinforcements, al-Husseini added.
A joint force from the Iraqi army, police and Hashd Shaabi members started a search for the attackers, he noted.
Despite repeated military operations in Diyala, IS remnants were still hiding in rugged areas near the border with Iran, as well as the sprawling areas extending from the western part of Diyala to Himreen mountainous area in the northern part of the province.
The security situation in Iraq was dramatically improved after Iraqi security forces fully defeated the IS militants across the country late in 2017.
IS remnants, however, have since melted in urban areas or resorted to deserts and rugged areas as safe havens, carrying out hit-and-run attacks against security forces and civilians.
Syria is the stronghold of the ISIS. Zakir Naik, prime accused in carrying out several anti-national activities, has been living in Malaysia for many years after fleeing India.
The intentions of the three ISIS-backed terrorists caught by the Special Cell of Delhi Police on Thursday were extremely dangerous.
"Police teams of different states including Karnataka, Kerala, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir, Telangana are interrogating the three militants arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police. The interrogation is underway in the presence of officers of R&AW and IB," a team member of Delhi Police Special Cell, who arrested the three terrorists during an encounter in northeast Delhi's Wazirabad, told IANS on Saturday.
To nab the militants, five to six teams of Delhi Police Special Cell under Deputy Commissioner Pramod Kumar Singh Kushwaha were formed.
The teams had been looking for the terrorists in Tamil Nadu and the Nepal-India border for the last few months. They also traced the calls of these terrorists many times.
The well-trained terrorists did not stay in any city for more than two-three days, said sources.
Sources said that the conversations about "Zakir Naik" and "Syria" alarmed the Delhi Police Special Cell teams. They arrested the IS terrorists in Wazirabad on Thursday.
"Under influence of Zakir Naik, one of the arrested terrorists even shaved off his beard. They were planning a major terror attack in India to impress IS," a member of the police team told IANS on the condition of anonymity on Friday.
The three suspects, identified as Khaja Moideen (52), Syed Ali Navas (32), and Abdul Samad (28), are also accused in the murder of KP Suresh Kumar, a Hindu leader. After being released on bail, they had fled in mysterious circumstances and wanted to get in touch with Zakir Naik and IS leaders.
(IANS)
Acting on intelligence reports, the CTS forces backed by Iraqi and international coalition aircraft, stormed into the Ayn al-Jahash area south of the provincial capital of Mosul, the former stronghold of the IS, Xinhua news agency reported citing the military as saying in a statement on Sunday.
The CTS forces were engaged in fierce clashes with IS militants in the area for two successive days, Yahia Rasoul, spokesman of the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi forces, said in the statement.
The troops forced the IS militants to withdraw and hole up in their hideouts in tunnels and caves, prompting the CTS troops to storm their hideouts even with hand grenades, he added.
The operation resulted in the killing of 42 IS militants, including five of their local leaders, and the seizure of weapons and ammunition inside the hideouts, according to Rasoul.
The operation came as the extremist group have intensified their attacks on the security forces and civilians in the formerly IS-controlled Sunni provinces, resulting in the killing and wounding of dozens.
The security situation in Iraq has been improving since the security forces fully defeated the IS militants across the country in 2017.
(IANS)