Zakharova: Daesh, Jabhat al-Nusra Militants Hiding in Refugee Camp

MOSCOW- Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Thursday that militants from the so-called “Islamic State” [Daesh] and Jabhat al-Nusra (terrorist groups outlawed in Russia) are hiding in Rukban refugee camp on the border with Jordan, using refugees as a human shield, with the knowledge of US military, Itar Tass reported.

“The Syrian authorities and UN staff still have no access to Rukban, the biggest camp for internally displaced persons close to the Jordanian border,” she said, according to Tass.

 “Several hundred IS [Daesh or ISIS or ISIL] militants as well as al-Nusra militants, possessing heavy weaponry, are hiding among civilians who have found themselves hostages, and are using them as a human shield,” she went on to say.

“Unfortunately, all this happens, and we have information confirming this, with the knowledge of the US military who control the 55-kilometer zone around their illegal base in Al-Tanf on the Syrian territory,” she added.

US started plundering Syria’s’ national wealth

 Zakharova said that Washington has practically started plundering Syria’s’ national wealth.

Sehe clarified that the US, that last week said it would stop financing some programs on what it called “stabilization” of Syria, within the framework of which the activity of anti-government structures was financed in practice, has shifted responsibility to its allies.

“Now they engage in restoring and updating the oil producing infrastructure in the northeast of Syria and in practice have started plundering the Syrian national wealth, this time not with

their own means, but with the money received from other participants in the so-called US-led coalition, namely Europeans and some Arab states.

H.M