After major defeats in Syria and Iraq, the international terrorist group «Islamic State» shifts its interests to the CIS countries, including in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia.
On this, speaking with a report at the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia named after V.Ya.Kikotya, where the opening of the II International Scientific and Practical Conference «Priority tasks of international cooperation in countering extremism and terrorism», took place, the head of the Main Directorate for Countering Extremism of the Interior Ministry Oleg Ilinykh said.
«The strategic defeat of the Caliphate in Syria and Iraq entails a shift in the interests of the «Islamic State» (banned in the Russian Federation) to the territory of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia», he noted, in particular.
According to Ilinykh, ISIL still has plans to form a worldwide terrorist network, sleeping cells that would be capable of carrying out terrorist attacks around the world.
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