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Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained four members of ISIS “sleeper cell” in Moscow. ISIS members arrived from the city of Noviy Urengoy in Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region with a goal to carry out “high-profile” attacks in Moscow,  the FSB’s press service told Russian media  on April 26. According to FSB, the detained ISIS members had received instructions from Syria through Telegram messenger. The security services clarified that searches and detentions had been held in Novy Urengoy. In the course of special operations, 20 people were rounded up in the city. A large number of religious extremist books, as well as “communication facilities used for contacting foreign emissaries” were seized. On April 21, FSB killed an ISIS terrorist who had plotted an attack on administrative buildings in Stavropol. Security forces recovered a firearm, explosive components and ISIS flag. In a separate development, large-scale counter-terrorism operations were st...

Taliban fighters during a military exercise before “Operation al-Khandagh” Taliban fighters captured two military bases and nine checkpoints of the Afghan Army and Police in a successful coordinated attack in the Almar district of the northern province of Faryab, the Taliban news agency Voice of Jihad reported on April 27. According to the news agency, Taliban fighters captured loads of weapons including two US-made armored vehicles. Mohammad Saleh Saleh, the governor of Almar district, acknowledged that nine Afghan policeman had been killed and fifteen others were injured in the Taliban attack on the district, according to the Afghan TOLO TV. Abdul Karim Yourish spokesman for Faryab Police said that Afghan policemen had killed eleven members of the Taliban during the clashes in Almar, including “Mohammad Amin” the movement’s field commander. However, Yourish didn’t clarify if the attack had been fully repelled. The Voice of Jihad said that the attack is a part of the Tal...

Russian and Syrian officials as well as witnesses of the alleged chemical attack that took place in Syria’s Douma on April 7,  held a press conference in The Hague on April 26. HINT: The US, the UK and France used the April 7 incident in Douma to justify their April 14 missile attack on Syria.  MORE HERE The preess conference included “Presentation by the representative of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation with direct participants of the fake video produced by ‘White Helmets’ on 7th April 2018, in the Hospital of Douma”. Click to see the full-size image Major-General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, provided the following info: Russian experts had performed “a detailed analysis of the information on the ground”. No people injured or killed in the alleged chemical attack found. No witnesses that the alleged chemical attack took place found. Two gas cylinders, allegedly dropped by ...