Russia's ministry of defence issued an aerial image of an undamaged building to counter claims a mosque was hit on 1 October 2015. This highlighted structure is labelled the 'Al Farooq Omar Bin Al Khattab Mosque' but the Atlantic Council report says it is the 'Al Farooq Mosque', known locally for its blue minaret
Online discussion of the incident frequently mentioned the Omar Bin al-Khattab mosque, situated in the north of Jisr al-Shughour. This location was actually obscured in the Russian aerial image by the 'Al Farooq Omar Bin Al Khattab Mosque' caption, which the report says conflates the names of two separate mosques in the town
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Jisr al-Shughour
Omar Bin al-Khattab mosque
Al-Farooq mosque
A local activist provided the investigators with an aerial image said to show the Omar Bin al-Khattab mosque in April 2015. This was compared with images supposedly showing the same building damaged by an airstrike. Features visible in both images are highlighted here in green and red
The Atlantic Council team analysed other images of the damaged mosque in this way. Some of these show pieces of a white minaret, suggesting the blue-domed al-Farooq mosque shown in the Russian rebuttal was not hit
Russia's ministry of defence issued an aerial image of an undamaged building to counter claims a mosque was hit on 1 October 2015. This highlighted structure is labelled the 'Al Farooq Omar Bin Al Khattab Mosque' but the Atlantic Council report says it is the 'Al Farooq Mosque', known locally for its blue minaret
The Atlantic Council team analysed other images of the damaged mosque in this way. Some of these show pieces of a white minaret, suggesting the blue-domed al-Farooq mosque shown in the Russian rebuttal was not hit
A local activist provided the investigators with an aerial image said to show the Omar Bin al-Khattab mosque in April 2015. This was compared with images supposedly showing the same building damaged by an airstrike. Features visible in both images are highlighted here in green and red
Online discussion of the incident frequently mentioned the Omar Bin al-Khattab mosque, situated in the north of Jisr al-Shughour. This location was actually obscured in the Russian aerial image by the 'Al Farooq Omar Bin Al Khattab Mosque' caption, which the report says conflates the names of two separate mosques in the town
200m
200 yards
Jisr al-Shughour
Omar Bin al-Khattab mosque
Al-Farooq mosque