ISIS calls recent setbacks temporary, vowing to capture Baghdad

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Islamic State (ISIS) preachers said in their Friday sermon in Mosul on Friday that recent setbacks in the battlefield were temporary and that the group will capture Iraq's capital Baghdad.

Ismat Rajab, a politician with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in charge of Mosul affairs told Rudaw that leaders of the group have asked their members to remain patience in the face of recent setbacks.

Rajab added that the ISIS leaders' vow to capture Baghdad was to boost the morale of their followers.

The Friday preachers also condemned the newly-established Saudi-led Muslim coalition as the coalition of Kufr "unbelievers".

The radical group has suffered serious loss of territory in recent months.

Iraqi security forces drove the group from the Western city of Ramadi last month and the Kurdish Peshmerga recaptured the Yezidi town of Shingal a month earlier.

In another news, ISIS militants were reported to have executed 83 members of the al-Jibour tribe, including former army soldiers and police men, at the village of Hod south of Mosul.