Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) stopped the activities of six members of a clandestine Islamic State (IS, terrorist group banned in Russia) cell in the Moscow region, the FSB said in a statement Friday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th October, 2018) Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) stopped the activities of six members of a clandestine Islamic State (IS, terrorist group banned in Russia) cell in the Moscow region, the FSB said in a statement Friday.
"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, jointly with Russia's Interior Ministry... conducted manhunt and investigative activities in the Moscow region to stop illegal activities of six members of an organized, deeply secret cell of the Islamic State international terrorist organization," it said, adding that the detained militants planned to carry out terror attacks in Moscow using firearms and improvised explosive devices.
"The terrorist cell was managed by emissaries in the Syrian Arab Republic - natives of the Central Asian region," the FSB said.
It said automatic weapons, reports on terror attack plans, money and instructions how to make improvised explosive devices were seized from the militants.
