ArmInfo.After the defeat in Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State shifts interest to the territory of Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. This opinion is shared by Head of the Main Directorate for Countering Extremism of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation Oleg Ilinykh.
According to Ilinykh, leaders of the Islamic State banned in Russia are harboring plans to form a worldwide terrorist network, sleeping cells that would demonstrate the ability to carry out terrorist attacks around the world.
"The strategic defeat of the Caliphate in Syria and Iraq entails a shift in the interests of the" Islamic State "to the territory of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia," said Ilinykh at the V.Ya. Kikot' Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, speaking at the opening of the II International Scientific and Practical Conference "Priority tasks of international cooperation in countering extremism and terrorism," RIA Novosti reports.