Russia's FSB detain suicide bomber plotting terrorist attack
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The FSB's statement reveals that the detainee was recruited as a suicide bomber in Turkey by one of the ISIS leaders.
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Russia's FSB says detained suicide bomber plotting a terrorist attack.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Monday that its agents had apprehended an ISIS suicide bomber, who was planning a terrorist assault against a member of India's leadership elite.
"Russia's FSB identified and detained a member of the Islamic State international terrorist organization banned in Russia, a native of a country in the Central Asian region, who planned to commit a terrorist act by blowing himself up against one of the representatives of the ruling circles of India," the authority said in a statement.
The statement revealed that the detainee was recruited as a suicide bomber in Turkey by one of the ISIS leaders.
Russia arrests 8 members of a terrorist organization
The FSB of Russia announced the arrest of eight militants preparing strikes in Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, and Novosibirsk on Thursday.
The militants, immigrants from the countries of Central Asia, belong to the terrorist group "Unification and Jihad Brigade".
These inmates were recruiting new members in order to organize them and deploy them to areas of armed conflict, as well as financing and inciting terrorist groups in Syria to commit terrorist-related crimes, according to security officials.
The FSB said it had seized Communication devices, electronic devices, and credit cards from the suspects.
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