ISIS cell plotting to terror attacks in Russia busted

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Russian Federal Security Services (FSB) announced that it broke up an Islamic State (ISIS) sleeper cell in the city of Volgograd which was plotting to carry out terror attacks and was recruiting fighters for the group.

Five perpetrators were detained by the FSB, with assistance of the local police, in the town of Pallasovsk in the Volgograd Region, the security agency said, cited by the official Russia Today website.

The detained were members of the so-called 'Pallasovsky Jamaat' group, which ‘was involved in recruitment… of residents of the region to participate in activities of Islamic State,” according to the FSB.

One of the captured had "planned to stage a terror attack in the Volgograd region," it said.

“Ammunition, explosives as well as other chemical compounds and striking elements for improvised explosive devices, literature of religious and extremist nature were found and seized at their place of residence,” it added.

The latest terror attack in the city of Volgograd was in October 2013, when a female suicide bomber blew herself up on a bus, killing six people and injuring more than 30 others.

Russia intervened in Syria’s war late last September and curtailed its air campaign in the country in early March.

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