IS Trying To Create Stronghold In Central Asia - CIS Anti-Terrorism Center

Fakhir Rizvi Published September 25, 2018 | 09:03 AM

IS Trying to Create Stronghold in Central Asia - CIS Anti-Terrorism Center

CHOLPON-ATA (Kyrgyzstan) (UrduPoint news / Sputnik - 25th September, 2018) ATA (Kyrgyzstan), September 25 (Sputnik) - The Islamic State (IS) terror group, outlawed in Russia, is trying to create a stronghold in Central Asia and to activate Islamist sleeper cells in the region, Andrey Novikov, the head of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Anti-Terrorism Center, said on Tuesday.

"[One of the problems of Central Asia] is attempts of the IS international terror group to create a new stronghold of the so-called 'caliphate,' form and activate the 'sleeping Jamaats,'" Novikov said in the Kyrgyz town of Cholpon-Ata, which is hosting the second phase of the Issyk-Kul Anti-Terror 2018 drills.� �

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