Tag: ISIS fighters from former Soviet Union

Russia and Other Post-Soviet States Supplying Twenty Percent of Foreigners Fighting for ISIS, FSB Says

November 12, 2015

Staunton, November 11 – The post-Soviet states are currently supplying 7,000 of the 30,000 foreigners who have gone to Syria to fight for ISIS, according to Yevgeny Sysoyev, the deputy director of the FSB; with a large share of these coming from Muslim regions in the Russian Federation itself. On the one hand, he told […]