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27-03-2024, 04:58 PM
Commentary: What will Putin do after deadly Moscow concert hall attack?. The carnage at the Crocus City Hall casts a shadow on the FSB and its ability to protect ordinary Russians from terrorism, says international security expert Stefan Wolff.
BIRMINGHAM, England: The attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall concert venue on Friday (Mar 22) has been the deadliest terrorist incident in two decades, with current estimates of more than 130 people killed and scores more injured.
Apart from the human tragedy of the event, it raises a series of questions about why Russia finds itself in the sights of the Islamic State terror group, how the attack could happen in a country known for its giant internal security apparatus, and how it might affect the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine.
The group that claimed responsibility for the attack is Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), a branch of the Islamic State terror network which is believed to have its main base in Afghanistan.
There it has emerged as the main adversary to the Taliban and is believed to be relying mostly on ethnic Tajiks to fill its ranks, while also recruiting among nationalities of other Central Asian states, such as Kyrgyz and Uzbeks.
Among these, some were part of the former Northern Alliance that already resisted the Taliban during their first period of rule in Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, while others were fighters returning from Syria after the defeat of the Islamic State there and in neighbouring Iraq by an international coalition that included Russia.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commenta...ne-4222431
BIRMINGHAM, England: The attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall concert venue on Friday (Mar 22) has been the deadliest terrorist incident in two decades, with current estimates of more than 130 people killed and scores more injured.
Apart from the human tragedy of the event, it raises a series of questions about why Russia finds itself in the sights of the Islamic State terror group, how the attack could happen in a country known for its giant internal security apparatus, and how it might affect the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine.
The group that claimed responsibility for the attack is Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), a branch of the Islamic State terror network which is believed to have its main base in Afghanistan.
There it has emerged as the main adversary to the Taliban and is believed to be relying mostly on ethnic Tajiks to fill its ranks, while also recruiting among nationalities of other Central Asian states, such as Kyrgyz and Uzbeks.
Among these, some were part of the former Northern Alliance that already resisted the Taliban during their first period of rule in Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, while others were fighters returning from Syria after the defeat of the Islamic State there and in neighbouring Iraq by an international coalition that included Russia.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commenta...ne-4222431
