Moscow has reasons to believe that Washington has saved Jabhat Nusra terrorist group to overthrow the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad with its help, said the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, reports RIA Novosti.

"There are a lot of examples that testify to the fact, that Jabhat Nusra has been taken outside the brackets of the practical operations of the US coalition. There have been sufficient grounds to believe, that this group have been saved as an effective fighting force against the Syrian government, so that when the time comes, it be used to overthrow the legitimate government of Syria, "he said.

Lavrov said, that the movement of militants from Mosul to IS and additional operations in those areas, that control the coalition’s area, lead to the following thought: "It is designed in a way to provide the militants who are in Allepo and keep civilians as human shields to take a breath. "