Islamic State group claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack in Moscow. Its Islamic State-Khorasan branch, known as ISIS-K, was active inside Russia, according to U.S. officials.
The group’s rapid capture of large swaths of Iraq and Syria in 2014 shocked the world. And while it lost its control of this territory in the years that followed, the latest assault is a grim reminder of the ability of the group and its offshoots to carry out attacks in the Middle East and abroad., declared the establishment of a caliphate over swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq.
While Islamic State has not said which of its branches was involved in the attack, two U.S. officials said that recent intelligence reporting indicated theEarlier this month, Russia’s Federal Security Service said it had foiled an ISIS-K attack on a Moscow synagogue, the country’s TASS news agencyfrom the Soufan Center, which studies violent extremism, more foreign fighters joined Islamic State from the former Soviet republics than any other region.
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