Tahrir al-Sham to Orient News: Al-Julani is not injured

A source in Tahrir al-Sham exclusively told Orient News that the leader of the ultraconservative group was not injured in any of the Russian attacks as Moscow claimed today.

Some lines of the exclusive statement, which was passed by the director of public relations in "Tahrir al-Sham, Emad Eddin Mujahid, read: 

“The Russian claims of targeting the headquarters of Tahrir al-Sham and injuring of its commander-in-chief, Abu Muhammad Al-Julani, aim at spreading rumors to justify bombing civilians.”

The statement came after the Russian Defence Ministry’s spokesman Igor Konashenkov said a Russian airstrike attacked a meeting of Tahrir al-Sham’s senior commanders in Idlib.

"As a result of the strike, the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra (Tahrir al-Sham) Abu Mohammed al-Julani suffered multiple serious shrapnel wounds and lost his arm,” Konashenkov continued in the statement.

Idlib was declared a fourth de-escalation zone by the three guarantor states (Turkey, Russia, Iran) last month, but no no calm down of escalation  has been observed so far.