Russian Security Agency:

US Special Services Involved in Daesh Militants' Transfer to Afghanistan

US special services are involved in transferring Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) militants to Northern regions of Afghanistan with the aim of destabilising the situation on the borders with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Sergey Beseda, the Head of the Russian Federal Security Service's international relations department, said on Monday.

News ID: 447272

Date: 25 September 2019 - 16:45

"We have received information about the US special services' involvement in the transferring of Daesh fighters to Afghan Northern regions to destabilise the situation on the CIS Southern borders and later in Central Asia," Beseda stated at the the 16th meeting of the leadership of intelligence services under the chairmanship of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) head Sergey Naryshkin in the Russian city of Kazan, Sputnik reported.

According to an official, the security agencies and intelligence services of the CIS countries must identify threats at an early stage to provide security to the CIS states.

The US has been accused numerous times of providing various forms of support to Daesh and other terrorist groups operating in the region.

In 2018, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri accused the US of transporting Daesh terrorists to Afghanistan after they were defeated in Syria and Iraq in order to maintain tension in the region, using it as an excuse to stay there longer.