Russia warns against ISIL influence on CIS borders

Russia warns against ISIL influence on CIS borders

Wed May 27, 2015 9:51AM

The file photo shows the ISIL Takfiri terrorists executing Syrian soldiers in a desert area near Syria’s northern city of al-Raqqah.

A Russian security official has warned against the spillover of the ISIL Takfiri group's influence to the borders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
It was probable that ISIL Takfiri terrorists would try to expand their influence to the post-Soviet space, General Andrey Novikov, the head of the CIS Anti-Terror Center, said on Tuesday in his speech at a meeting of the Council of Security Bodies of the CIS member states in Tajikistan capital, Dushanbe, TASS reported.
“According to security service analysts, the regrouping of international terrorist forces closer to CIS external borders is conjugated with simultaneous attempts by IS(IL)-led terrorist organizations to organize armed actions in countries bordering on the CIS states, and that may deteriorate the operational situation in the Commonwealth states," General Novikov stressed.
"We are particularly concerned with growing recruitment activities” of the ISIL Takfiri group, he said.
General Novikov also expressed concern about the “redeployment of militants from international terrorist organizations from the Central Asian region to the area of armed conflict in the Middle East."

Putin warns against ISIL
Meanwhile Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in a meeting with top security officials of BRICS - a group comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, warned against the emergence of ISIL and said, “We know what is going on now, say, in the Middle East, in North Africa, we know problems connected with the terrorist organization” in the region that is called ISIL.

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R, front), accompanied by Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev (R, back), attends a meeting with the BRICS countries' security officials in Moscow on May 26, 2015. (AFP photo)

"It is clear that the consequences are hard.” Putin stressed.
“There was no terrorism in the countries where it (ISIL) is active now until a totally unacceptable outside interference, which occurred without the United Nations Security Council permission, took place,” Putin added.
The ISIL Takfiri terrorists currently control large parts of Syria and Iraq. They have committed vicious atrocities in both countries, including mass executions and beheading of local residents and foreign nationals.
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