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ISIS Takes Credit for Attack on Russian Christians

Posted by on February 19, 2018

A young man shouting “Allahu akbar” opened fire on Orthodox Christians exiting a church in the Dagestan region of Russia, killing five and wounding several others. ISIS quickly claimed credit for the attack, describing the dead gunman as a “soldier of the caliphate.”

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“The Islamic State claimed credit for the attack on the church, issuing a bulletin on its Amaq news agency, followed by a lengthier official statement in which the group described the assailant as a “soldier of the caliphate” and provided a nom de guerre for the attacker, Khalil al-Dagestani.

 

Not long afterward, pro-Islamic State channels…released a video showing a man said to be the assailant sitting before the Islamic State flag, his face covered by a ski mask.”

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ISIS has proclaimed Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim region that borders Chechnya, part of its “franchise” in the North Caucasus region of Russia. Since 2015, Islamists pledging allegiance to ISIS, have carried out a number of terrorist attacks in the region, causing Moscow further trouble in an already unstable part of the country.

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