MOSCOW. March 6 (Interfax) - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) reported the neutralization of a cell of supporters of ISIL, an international terrorist organization banned in Russia, and the detention of its organizer and four accomplices in Dagestan.
"The FSB, in cooperation with the Interior Ministry, has put an end to activities of a cell of supporters of the international terrorist organization ISIL responsible for recruiting Dagestani residents having radical sentiments and transferring them to Syria to take part in military activities as members of international terrorist organizations," the FSB told Interfax on Tuesday.
"The organizer of the said unlawful activities and four of his accomplices were detained in Makhachkala on March 5. They had persuaded at least four people to leave Russia to undergo subversive and terrorist training at Islamic State's field camps, after which they became active members of its armed units," it said.