Border Security
Islamic
State Emissaries Sighted Near Russian Borders: Foreign Minister
00:09 25.12.2014(updated 02:28 25.12.2014)
Russian Foreign
Minister cited unspecified intelligence reports saying that Islamic State
emissaries have been sighted in northern Afghanistan close to the Russian
border.
MOSCOW, December 25 (Sputnik) —
Islamic State (IS) emissaries have been spotted in northern Afghanistan
close to the Russian border, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said citing unspecified intelligence reports.
"It is necessary to eliminate their [IS militants'] domination
on vast swathes of territory in Iraq, Syria, they have already
made incursions in Libya," Lavrov said in an interview
with Russia's Kommersant newspaper published on Thursday.
"There are reports that their [IS] emissaries have been sighted
in northern Afghanistan, which means they are closing in on Central
Asia and, therefore, on the Russian borders," Lavrov stressed.
IS, a radical Sunni group also known as the Islamic State
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL), has ceased vast areas in Iraq and Syria, having proclaimed an
Islamic caliphate on the territories under its control. The
extremists have been performing public crucifixions and beheadings
among other atrocities.
The United States is leading an anti-IS coalition that has been
conducting airstrikes against IS jihadists in Iraq and Syria. The
coalition comprises more than 60 countries, many members of which are
taking part in the airstrikes.
Russia has expressed its unwillingness to join any coalitions that
bypass the United Nations.
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