The FSB director warns: the terrorist threat to CIS countries is growing - it's time to be vigilant.

Assalamu alaikum, brothers and sisters. Briefly about something important. At the 57th meeting of the Council of Heads of Security Agencies of the CIS in Samarkand, FSB director Alexander Bortnikov said the main threat to the Commonwealth countries remains international terrorism. According to him, large terrorist structures see the Central Asian republics and other CIS countries as priority targets for expanding their influence. Bortnikov noted that after the latest military escalation in the Middle East the number of online communities promoting jihadist ideology has noticeably grown, and more people want to go to the Middle East to join terrorist formations. He stressed that the routes moving such people through Turkey and the Gulf countries are controlled by foreign intelligence services, which screen and recruit candidates and then may redirect them to carry out attacks in their countries of origin. In this connection, Bortnikov said, it’s important to improve joint work between services on migration flows to identify in advance those involved with international terrorist organizations and foreign intelligence services. He also reported that transfers of militants from the Middle East to Afghanistan have become more frequent, where they fall under the Afghan branch of ISIS (banned in the Russian Federation) - “Wilayat Khorasan.” According to the director, some foreign private military companies are also involved in the resource support of this group. The head of the FSB said that the leaders of ISIS-K aim to seize northern districts of Afghanistan and reach the borders of the CIS. To that end they’ve launched active propaganda in Tajik, Kyrgyz, Uzbek and now Kazakh, recruit in places where they operate, and are expanding a network of training camps with the assistance of foreign intelligence services. The strengthening of ISIS-K, in Bortnikov’s view, benefits external players: on one hand to undermine the Taliban’s authority, and on the other to create a long-term hotspot of threat on the southern borders of the CIS. Given ISIS’s experience of Middle Eastern expansion, the Afghan branch may try to penetrate CIS territory under the slogan of creating a “world caliphate,” and that makes the growing number of our fellow citizens in the ranks of this international terrorist organization especially dangerous. The results of joint work by the countries’ special services show that ISIS-K’s aggression against the Central Asian republics and Russia is intensifying. I’ll remind those reading: Islam arose in the 7th century and had a major influence on the history, culture and social development of many peoples. In Arabic “Islam” means submission to the will of Allah. Today the religion has more than a billion followers. May Allah keep us safe and give wisdom to our rulers and communities in matters of defense and unity. Sincerely, Information Agency IslamNews (reg. 28.05.2008, Reg. No. FS 77-32075) Founder and Editor-in-Chief: Nezametdinov R.A. Editorial phone: +7 926 180 86 49 Email: ic_russia@mail.ru https://islamnews.ru/2025/10/17/direktor-fsb-predupredil-o-roste-terroristicheskoy-ugrozy-dlya-stran-sng-s-privlecheniem-inostrannykh-spetssluzhb-i-chvk