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Isis attack on Moscow: Russia says US trying to cover up ‘something’ – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Russia has raised concerns over the United States' immediate attribution of blame following the recent terror attack in Moscow, with Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson for President Vladimir Putin, labeling the quick judgment as peculiar. This skepticism comes amid an ongoing Russian investigation into the tragic incident that left 143 dead at a concert venue.Early conclusions drawn by US and EUHours after the attack at Crocus City Hall, both the US and EU were quick to absolve Ukraine of any involvement, pointing the finger at Islamic State Khorasan (Isis-K) as the sole perpetrator.Peskov finds the rush to a definitive narrative by the Americans particularly odd. “It’s strange, to say the least, that the Americans have dared to announce a single narrative,” Peskov expressed, sugges...
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Why Russia finds it ‘hard to believe’ that Isis attacked Moscow – Times of India

NEW DELHI: In the aftermath of the harrowing attack on Moscow's Crocus City Hall, which left at least 140 people dead, the Russian Foreign Ministry is casting doubt on the involvement of Islamic State, despite its claim of responsibility. Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova expressed skepticism on Wednesday, saying it was "extremely hard to believe" that Islamic State could orchestrate such a massacre, marking the deadliest assault on Russian soil in two decades.Amidst a cloud of suspicion and grief, Zakharova suggested, without providing evidence, that Ukraine, backed by Western powers, might be behind the catastrophe. "In order to ward off suspicions from the collective West, they urgently needed to come up with something, so they resorted to ISIS, pulled an ace out of their sleeve," she clai...
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‘Isis issues fresh threat to Putin, Russia’ – Times of India

NEW DELHI: An Islamic State (IS) poster has recently emerged on social media, heralding a fresh threat against Russia. This development comes just days after the group acknowledged orchestrating an assault on Moscow's concert center. The ominous poster, highlighted by Iranian media and linked to IS-Khorasan's propaganda network, Al Azaim, displays a masked individual wielding a knife with a menacing message directed at Russia and specifically Vladimir Putin, a Newsweek report said.IS-Khorasan, established in Afghanistan back in late 2014, has openly claimed responsibility for the harrowing attack on Moscow's Crocus Center, resulting in at least 137 fatalities. Following this incident, four Tajik nationals were charged with terrorism, with all admitting guilt as reported by TASS news age...
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IS-Khorasan’s attacks in Russia, Iran point to an Islamic State resurgence | Analysis

In June 2015, a few months after the Islamic State (IS) announced the establishment of its Wilayat Khorasan (Khorasan Province), the Taliban wrote a letter to the then IS chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, asking him to stop recruiting jihadists in Afghanistan. The letter, signed by the then political committee chief of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansour (who would take over the insurgency in a month and be killed by a U.S. air strike in May 2016), said there was room for “only one flag and one leadership” in the fight to re-establish Islamic rule in Afghanistan. But the IS faction, which came to be known as the Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), did not stop recruiting disgruntled Taliban fighters. In the subsequent years, the IS-K attacked the Taliban for holding talks with the “crusaders” (rea...