US Preparing Disinformation Attack To Accuse Russia Of Assisting IS In Afghanistan- Moscow

The United States is preparing a disinformation attack to accuse Russia of assisting the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, ISIS, banned in Russia), including in redeployment of terrorists from Syria and Iraq to Afghanistan, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th January, 2019) The United States is preparing a disinformation attack to accuse Russia of assisting the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, ISIS, banned in Russia), including in redeployment of terrorists from Syria and Iraq to Afghanistan, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday.

"Recently, information has been received on the preparation by the US security services of a series of disinformation attacks in the media outlets of Afghanistan and a number of Western countries aimed at discrediting Russia's policy regarding Afghanistan. In particular, there are plans to accuse our country of assisting ISIS, including in the redeployment to Afghanistan of militants of that terrorist group from Syria and Iraq," the ministry said.

"At the same time, we keep paying attention to.

.. evidence of... indirect links between Americans and ISIS militants. We talk about a recent statement by the Taliban movement about a targeted raid by US special forces to capture one of the Taliban prisons in the Afghan province of Badghis, which contained ISIS militants captured in northern Afghanistan in August 2018. All these persons were taken away by special forces in an unknown direction," it said.

The ministry said this suggested that the United States could have tried, in this way, to prevent the leakage of information that the mentioned ISIS militants could have reported about their real sponsors.

It said Russia was calling on the United States to stop intrigues around Afghanistan and promote peaceful settlement.