ISIS: Russia Neutralizes a Cell in Moscow

Sudan Events – Agencies 

Russia’s FSB security service said Thursday it had killed ISIS militants who were planning a “terrorist attack” on a Moscow synagogue.
The FSB said an ISIS cell based in Kaluga, southwest of Moscow, had been planning to shoot Jewish worshippers at a synagogue in the capital.
“While being arrested, the terrorists put up armed resistance to the Russian FSB officers, and as a result were neutralized by return fire,” FSB said in a statement.
“Firearms, ammunition, as well as components for the manufacture of an improvised explosive device were found and seized,” it added.
The FSB did not say how many people were killed in the operation.
It said the fighters were members of the Afghan branch of ISIS but did not state their nationality.
Russian authorities frequently announce the thwarting of planned attacks by suspected extremist groups.
Earlier this month the FSB said it killed six suspected ISIS fighters in the Muslim-majority southern region of Ingushetia.
Tensions between Russia’s Muslim and Jewish communities have flared at times during the Israel-Hamas war.
Last October, protestors stormed an airport in Dagestan, another Muslim-majority region in the Caucasus, after a plane arrived from Tel Aviv.