Central Asia, a region plagued by radical Islam and terrorism

Published on: 03/24/2024 – 06:04

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With our regional correspondent, Regis Gente

It is an offshoot of the Islamic State, known as Khorasan, EI-K, that claimed responsibility for the attack on Crocus City Hall. It is a branch of the Islamic State in Afghanistan, which was founded in 2015.

It is composed of Afghans, Pakistanis, but especially Central Asians, Tajiks and Uzbeks.

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He seems very active Russia This has recently led to several crackdowns by Russian forces against them, most notably in Ingushetia in early March, where six Islamists were killed.

EI-K accuses the Kremlin of having Muslim blood on its hands in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Syria.

Other citizens of former Soviet republics in Central Asia have committed terrorist acts in Russia in recent years, such as a young ethnic Uzbek from Kyrgyzstan who carried out a bomb attack in the St. Petersburg metro in 2017.

Like thousands of others who joined Islamic State in Syria and Iraq in the 2010s, he was recruited from among the more than 5 million Central Asian labor migrants who settled in Russia.

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