Russia forces kill 6 more militants in North Caucasus
Russia’s counter-terrorism agency says its forces have killed at least six militants in a shoot-out in the troubled North Caucasus region.
Russia’s Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAK) said on Monday that the militants were killed during in the city of Nalchik, the capital of North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria.
The shootout erupted after the militants refused to turn themselves in to the security forces who had surrounded their house in the militancy-riddled region.
The NAK also noted that the slain militants were to blame for several terrorist attacks, including last week's killing of a senior police officer.
A day earlier, the agency announced the killing of eight militants who had sworn allegiance to the Takfiri ISIL militant group in the nearby province of Ingushetia. Some of these militants had been accused of staging an attack in Chechnya’s provincial capital, Grozny, last December, which left 25 people dead.
In April, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said a North Caucasus militant group, known as the Imarat Kavkaz, had allied itself with the ISIL.
In June, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha said that thousands of citizens from the member states of a post-Soviet security bloc have joined the ranks of ISIL militants in Syria.
"This is very conditional statistics. We know approximately how many citizens undergo combat training on the territory of Syria, that’s several thousand," Bordyuzha said on June 18, adding, “But we understand that these 2,000 or 3,000 are a great force."
He also said these citizens have now undergone combat training by the ISIL terrorist group in Syria.
Russian Deputy Security Council chief Yevgeny Lukyanov on June 25 strongly criticized Saudi Arabia for extending its assistance to the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group currently operating in Syria and Iraq.
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