The Islamic State has activated planning of operations against international projects in post-Soviet countries, as well as in Afghanistan, RIA Novosti said citing Yevgeny Sysoev, the head of the CIS Anti-Terrorist Center (ATC), as saying.
The eighth international scientific and practical conference of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (RATS SCO) "Modern Security: Challenges and Solutions" opened in Tashkent on Tuesday.
"ISIS activity is observed in the direction of planning operations against international projects on the territory of the countries of the post-Soviet space," Sysoev said at the conference.
The head of the ATC noted that the calls of the group's leaders to jihad against the so-called "slavery by China, Russia, Pakistan and Turkey" jeopardize the construction of a large Termez-Kabul-Peshevar railway corridor and the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline.
The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a militant Islamist group and former unrecognized quasi-state that follows the Salafi jihadist branch of Sunni Islam.
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Nov. 8, 2022