A person walks past an advertising screen displaying an image of a lit candle and the slogan '(We) Mourn' in memory of victims of the concert hall gun attack in Moscow on March 23, 2024.
Within hours of a deadly gun assault on a suburban Moscow concert hall, the Islamic State communicated that its affiliate in Afghanistan was responsible.The slogan ' Mourn' is displayed with a candle on a sign in Moscow on Saturday, the day after an attack by gunmen on a suburban concert hall killed more than 130 people. Within hours of a deadly gun assault on a suburban Moscow concert hall on Friday, the Islamic State's Afghanistan affiliate, ISIS-K, said it was behind the violence.
One of the most active regional affiliates of the Islamic State militant group, ISIS-K has seen its membership decline since peaking in about 2018. The Taliban and U.S. forces inflicted heavy losses.ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Moscow-area concert hall that killed dozens of people and injured more than 100.Gen. Michael Kurilla, commander of U.S.
Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Washington-based Wilson Center, said ISIS-K "sees Russia as being complicit in activities that regularly oppress Muslims." He added that the group also counts as members a number of Central Asian militants with their own grievances against Moscow.'Mastermind' of Kabul airport bombing killed by Taliban, says U.S.
In September 2022, ISIS-K militants claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing at the Russian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital.Damaged cars are seen in the aftermath of an explosion in Kerman, Iran, in early January. about a looming attack, in advance of the bombings — as they also did ahead of the recent events in Moscow.
The Taliban is also putting pressure on them, but they remain an issue. "These groups are embattled but not completely destroyed," he said.
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