…Is Heating Up.
"Russia's National Antiterror Committee (NAK) said security forces killed eight Islamic State militants Sunday, and six other Islamist rebels on Monday. Both incidents occurred in the Northern Caucasus region.
"According to information available to the security services, the militants killed in [Sunday's] operation had recently pledged allegiance and became members of the Islamic State (IS), an international terrorist organization," NAK said in a statement, reported Russia Today.
"All of them were complicit in a number of crimes of a terrorist nature, including the killings of law enforcement officers and the extortion of money from entrepreneurs." Sunday's incident took place in the republic of Ingushetia, while Monday's violence took place in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, another mountainous region in the North Caucasus region, according to news reports…"
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Islamic radicalism has been a problem in the Caucasus for a long time …. but with the conflicts in the Middle East becoming entrenched and a breeding ground for radical Jihad, many returning fighters from Chechnya, Dagestan, etc. are only going to continue the fight …. but this time against Russian security forces.