Moscow-Sana
The Russian Defense Ministry announced today that it has no information confirming the killing of the leader of the Islamic State terrorist organization "Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi" and is not aware of any alleged Russian assistance to the US air force in the operation.
US President Donald Trump announced today the liquidation of an Islamic State terrorist leader in a military operation in Idlib province, expressing his thanks to Russia and several other countries for helping them carry out the operation successfully.
"The increase in the number of direct participants and the countries that are said to have participated in this alleged operation, with contradictory details at all, raises justifiable questions and doubts about its realism," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said in a statement after Trump's announcement. Success. ”
The statement pointed out that no air strikes were detected by the US aircraft or the so-called "international coalition" on the area of de-escalation in Idlib within the last Saturday or last days and we are not aware of any alleged assistance to fly US aircraft over the de-escalation zone During this process.
The statement pointed out that all the territory in the area of de-escalation in Idlib is controlled by the terrorist organization Al-Nusra Front, which represents an arm of the Al-Qaida terrorist organization in Syria. Al-Nusra Front has always eliminated ISIS and any of its elements directly on the ground as its main competitors in this area. The presence of the Baghdadi terrorist in the area requires “the provision of separate direct evidence by the United States and other participants in the operation.”
`` From the moment of the final defeat of ISIS by the Syrian Arab Army with the support of the Russian Aerospace Force in early 2018, there is absolutely no impact of the news of al-Baghdadi's death on the situation in Syria or the actions of the remaining terrorists in Idlib, '' the ministry said.
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