For more than two years, jihadists drawn from Ajnad al-Kavkaz— part of Al-Nusra , Al-Qaeda’s front organisation in Syria—have been fighting Russia alongside Ukrainian forces. Led by Rustam Azhiev, the jihadists hope the war will lead to the liberation of their homeland in the North Caucasus, Chechnya. Ever since the destruction of the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate in 2016, numbers of Central Asian jihadists also resettled in Ukraine , including the group’s deputy minister for war, Caesar Tokhosashvili. Last week, as Islamic State-linked jihadists slaughtered over a hundred people at the Crocus Theatre in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin alleged...
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