Key Points
You are the foundation of the Eastern Legions, the Uzbek schoolteacher-turned-Nazi political officer Beymirza Hayit told them..
Last week, as Islamic State-linked jihadists slaughtered over a hundred people at the Crocus Theatre in Moscow,RussianPresidentVladimir Putin allegedthe West pulled the strings behind the hands curled around their Kalashnikovs..
Ever since the destruction of the Islamic States so-called caliphate in 2016, numbers of Central Asian jihadists alsoresettled in Ukraine, including the groups deputy minister for war, Caesar Tokhosashvili...
The improbable entanglement of jihadism in the Ukraine-Russia war is the outcome of a tortured history, in which the Nazi Fhrer Adolf Hitler, the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA)all played a part...
Following a disastrous campaign against the jihadists in 1994-1996, Putin went to war in Chechnya again in 1999-2004.Large-scale terrorismfollowed the brutal Russian offensive; jihadists killed 334 people, including 186 school-children, in the village of Beslan, following that up with suicide bombings in several cities...
