Russian FSB foils ISIS plot against Moscow synagogue

The FSB of Russia announced the prevention of an armed attack on a Moscow synagogue. According to an official statement, members of an Islamic State cell, who were planning the attack, were neutralized in the Kaluga region.

TASS reports the statement from the Center for Public Relations of the FSB of Russia: “A cell of the international terrorist organization Islamic State in Afghanistan, Wilayat Khorasan, banned in Russia, was suppressed on the territory of the Kaluga region. Its members were planning to carry out a terrorist act against one of the Jewish religious institutions in Moscow.”

The FSB Central Operations Center stated that the terrorists were identified during the information-gathering stage.

"Further operational search activities revealed that militants of an international terrorist organization were plotting to attack synagogue parishioners using firearms. When detained, the terrorists resisted the Russian FSB officers and were neutralized in the ensuing exchange of fire," the COS reported.

The investigative unit of the FSB Directorate for the Kaluga Region has opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 30 and Part 2 of Art. 205 of the Russian Criminal Code (preparation for a terrorist attack).

During investigative actions at the radicals' residence in the Kaluga region, firearms, ammunition, and components for an improvised explosive device were discovered, stated the FSB Central Operations Center.