{"id":62815,"date":"2024-03-25T03:47:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T18:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/24\/islamic-state-recruiting-militants-from-tajikistan-and-other-central-asian-countries"},"modified":"2024-03-25T03:47:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T18:47:50","slug":"islamic-state-recruiting-from-tajikistan-and-other-central-asian-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62815","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State \u2018recruiting from Tajikistan and other central Asian countries\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN report reveals Islamist group which claimed Moscow attack has enlisted militants from other terror groups<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/24\/new-islamic-state-videos-back-claim-it-carried-out-moscow-concert-hall-attack\">Videos back IS claim it carried out Russia attack<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Islamic State launched a major recruitment drive last year aimed at militants from Tajikistan and other central Asian countries and specifically targeting experienced members of existing groups with a long history of terrorist attacks, western and other intelligence services have said.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the four men detained by Russian security forces for the attack at a Moscow concert hall on Friday night are thought to be Tajik nationals or of Tajik origin. Video clips of the interrogation of four alleged attackers detained by Russian security forces showed at least one speaking Tajik.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/24\/islamic-state-recruiting-militants-from-tajikistan-and-other-central-asian-countries\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN report reveals Islamist group which claimed Moscow attack has enlisted militants from other terror groupsVideos back IS claim it carried out Russia attackIslamic State launched a major recruitment drive last year aimed at militants from Tajikistan a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,471,3077,1081,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-islamic-state","category-moscow-concert-hall-attack","category-tajikistan","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62816,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62815\/revisions\/62816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}