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Islamic State fighters have pushed members of the Yazidi community to a remote mountain top in Iraq. Pic: AFP. Source: AFP

Rumours circulating suggest the US is the force behind the Islamic State which is terrorising large parts of the region.

The idea has been gaining ground for weeks as social media users shared screenshots of “Password 360” which purports to be an excerpt from Hillary Clinton’s book where she admits the US engineered the Islamic State, the Washington Post reports.

The US Embassy in Beirut took to Facebook to squash the rumours, posting: “Any suggestion that the United States ever considered recognising the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as anything other than a terrorist organisation, or had any role in its creation, is patently false. Allegations circulating in Lebanon to the contrary are a fabrication.”

The US has been forced to deny the rumours on Facebook. Source: Supplied

However the statement quickly added fuel to the fire.

Facebook user Patrick Seukunian wrote: “Rumors said that Hillary Clinton mentioned these information in her latest book. I did not get to read the book but can anybody confirm or deny what she mentioned?”

While Majid Aslam described the US as the “mastermind” of IS “so that they can create unsuitability in Middle East and Islamic Countries.”

Although there is no such thing as “Password 360,” Hillary Clinton has said in her recent book, Hard Choices, and subsequent interviews US failure to help Syrian rebels led to the rise of the Islamic State.

“The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad — there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle — the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” she told The Atlantic.