{"id":12967,"date":"2018-02-01T12:04:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T12:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=12967"},"modified":"2018-02-01T12:04:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T12:04:34","slug":"russia-foils-terrorist-plot-by-daesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/russia-foils-terrorist-plot-by-daesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia foils terrorist plot by Daesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Russia\u2019s main intelligence agency has killed a member of the Daesh terrorist group who plotted a terrorist attack in the country on the presidential election day next month.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement on Thursday that it had \u201cneutralized\u201d the terrorist in the northwestern Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia\u2019s FSB suppressed the activity of a member of the international terrorist organization ISIL, who was preparing a terrorist attack in Nizhny Novgorod,\u201d\u00a0the agency said, using an English acronym for Daesh. \u201cThe criminal, who put up armed resistance before arrest, was neutralized by\u00a0special units of Russia\u2019s FSB.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the intelligence collected, the terrorist \u2014 a citizen of a neighboring state \u2014 was preparing the attack on the day of [the] Russian presidential election,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>An improvised explosive device, firearms, ammunition, and bomb-making components were seized from the terrorist after the raid on his location, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The FSB said in December last year that it had foiled terrorist plots targeting New Year\u2019s festivities and presidential election events in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Russian presidential election is scheduled to take place on March 18.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has seen terrorist attacks by Daesh before.<\/p>\n<p>The country began an aerial bombardment campaign against extremist outfits in Syria in late 2015, when the Syrian government submitted an official request. That campaign has helped significantly suppress extremist groups in the Arab country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s main intelligence agency has killed a member of the Daesh terrorist group who plotted a terrorist attack in the country on the presidential election day next month. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement on Thursday that it had \u201cneutralized\u201d the terrorist in the northwestern Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. \u201cRussia\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12969,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967\/revisions\/12969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}