The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

More than a year and half after his death…the Russian warplanes kill Abu Omar al-Shishani and kill Saladin al-Shishani who is still alive

About 72 hours after publishing false news about the injury of the leader of Nusra Front Abu Mohammad al-Julani, by raids targeted Idlib province on the 3rd of October 2017, the Russian military sources published other news that the Russian warplanes killed the important leader of ISIS, Abu Omar al-Shishani who was “the minister of war in the Islamic State”, and they also killed “Amir Jaysh Al-Osr” Saladin al-Shishani who refused earlier to pledge the allegiance for ISIS, after a meeting with the deputies of Abu Omar al-Shishani who invited him to join the ranks of the organization.

This false news about the death of Abu Omar al-Shishani comes about 17 months after killing him by raids by the International Coalition which targeted his parade in the southern countryside of Al-Hasakah, on the 7th of March 2016, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented then that he was injured seriously, then he entered a state of clinical death until he died on the 15th of March 2016, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published in the middle of July 2016, that vehicles of ISIS roamed inside the city of Al-Raqqah, declaring the death of the important military commander in the “Islamic State” organization Abu Omar al-Shishani, in Mosul area in Iraq, threatening to “respond his death in the land of the cross”, amid astonishment about the delay of the organization to declare his death to that time, as al-Shishani died in the middle of March 2016, after he entered a state of clinical death as a result of the injury he had by targeting his parade by warplanes affiliated to the International Coalition in the southern countryside of Al-Hasakah, on the 9th of March 2016, the commander al-Shishani survived with 2 other persons, while those who were with him were killed and they are about 10 members, he was transferred then to Al-Raqqah countryside, and a foreign professional doctor was called for treating him.

Reliable sources also confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that Saladin al-Shishani “Amir Jaysh Al-Osr”, is still alive, and didn’t injured in the raids of the warplanes on Idlib, and the sources denied the Russian claims of killing him, and confirmed that he is still in the ranks of his army which he declared about previously, months ago, after he was the commander of Jaysh al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, in which the SOHR published in the middle of November 2014, that Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Muhajren wa al-Ansar, and Islamic battalions have agreed in a meeting to send the leader of al-Muhajren wa al-Ansar to al-Raqqa city to talk to leaders in the IS, in order to reach a formula for a case-fire between the two sides, and focus on fighting the regime on all the fronts, without the using of each others’s lands.

The sources also informed SOHR that the leader of al-Muhajren wa al-Ansar army met with the deputy of the ” war minister ” in the IS, the deputy informed the leader that the IS refused this formula because ” some of these battalions are allied to the west even if they are Muslims, they have fought the IS to satisfy the west ” and he asked the leader to pledge allegiance to Abo Bakr al-Baghdadi, but the leader refused saying :: ” I pledged allegiance to the Amir of al-Quqaz state and I can not go back “. The two sides failed to reach an agreement in this round of talks, and the leader of al-Muhajreen Wa al-Ansar army went back to fight against regime forces in Aleppo fronts.

And a number of cross-sources also reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that they denied the news about the injury of leaders of the first and the second rows of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and reliable sources confirmed that the news which the Russian media published about the injury of the commander of Nusra Front (Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham) Abu Mohammad al-Julani or any leaders of the rows of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, is false, in which the targeting which took place on the 3rd of October 2017, by 3 warplanes hit targets in Abu Al-Duhur Military Airbase and in the Russian shelling on other areas in Idlib, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published then, that 8 persons at least mostly members of the Islamic police of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham were killed when 3 warplanes believed to be Russian carried out more than 23 strikes simultaneously targeting the area of Abu Al- Duhur Airbase, which is controlled by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and where fighters of the Islamic Party of Turkestan are located, and no information about casualties was reported yet.