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.