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Russia thwarts number of terrorist attacks planned by Daesh

July 05, 2021
File photo of Russian forces conducting search operations in Moscow. Russian authorities announced Monday that they had thwarted a series of terror attacks planned by the Daesh group.
File photo of Russian forces conducting search operations in Moscow. Russian authorities announced Monday that they had thwarted a series of terror attacks planned by the Daesh group.

MOSCOW — Russian authorities announced Monday that they had thwarted a series of terror attacks planned by the Daesh group (so-called IS) in Moscow and other Russian regions.

TASS News Agency quoted federal security sources as saying that Russian security forces thwarted a number of terrorist attacks planned by Daesh in the capital Moscow, Kabardino-Balkaria, and Astrakhan southern the country.

Security forces arrested two persons who were planning to execute the terror acts, the TASS added.

Meanwhile, five armed men were killed in Kabardino-Balkaria, notrthern Caucasus, while another man form Astrakhan region was killed while security forces attempted to arrest him in Moscow. — KUNA


July 05, 2021
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