Over 200 Volga region residents fighting for ISIL in Syria, Iraq - FSB Director
MOSCOW. June 16 (Interfax) - More than 200 residents of the Volga region are fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq, Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov has said.
"We have been observing recruitment of Russian citizens by ISIL in the Volga Federal District. Reportedly, over 200 residents of the Volga region are fighting for the Islamists in Syria and Iraq," Bortnikov said on Tuesday, at a joint meeting of the National Antiterrorism Committee and the Federal Operative Staff dedicated to the activity of antiterrorism commissions and operative staffs in constituent territories of the Volga Federal District.
Two followers "of the aforesaid international terrorist organization who planned a high-profile terror attack at a chemical arms storage depot and scrapping plant in the Kirov region" were sentenced to eleven and twelve years in custody, respectively, in October of last year, the FSB director said.
