
File picture shows police and Interior Ministry troops in central Moscow. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
Russia’s interior ministry said on Wednesday its agents had detained 14 radical Islamists in Moscow who belonged to a banned offshoot of the Al-Qaeda terror network.
MOSCOW: Russia’s interior ministry said on Wednesday its agents had detained 14 radical Islamists in Moscow who belonged to a banned offshoot of the Al-Qaeda terror network.
The ministry said members of Takfir wal-Hijra — a group formed in Egypt in the 1960s and outlawed in Russia in 2010 — had been discovered hiding weapons and explosives in their apartments but provided few other details.
It said the group had been funding its activities by “conducting general crime”.