“There is a cooperation but not at the right level – especially with the United States,” said Smirnov, and he was right. This lack of cooperation is because U.S. officials cannot or will not get their heads out of the sand and face the jihad threat realistically and honestly.
“Moscow says about 2,400 Russians fighting with Islamic State: RIA,” Reuters, September 18, 2015:
MOSCOW (Reuters) – About 2,400 Russian nationals are fighting with Islamic State militants, Russia’s First Deputy Director of Federal Security Sergei Smirnov was reported as saying on Friday.
RIA news agency also quoted Smirnov as saying that in total there are about 3,000 Central Asian nationals fighting within Islamic State groups.
Speaking to journalists, Smirnov said that the problem of migrants fleeing the Middle East to Europe is only likely to increase, posing potentially a “great threat” for Russia.
“The assertion that Moscow’s support negatively impacts the situation in Syria – and the flow of refugees in particular – is not true. This is due to the expansion of Islamic State in the region,” he said.
Hinting at the United States, Smirnov said that there are “some countries that try to evade” international cooperation on fighting terrorism.
“There is a cooperation but not at the right level – especially with the United States,” he said.

Jack says
Since all Jihadists aren’t Violent Jihadists, Obama is just doing his way of Jihad (struggle) why should we expect him to cooperate with anyone that would stop or even stall the world Caliphate. Over fifteen years ago I began to warn people that Stealth Jihad was going on in America, now the results are in just checkout the Muslims in key positions in our government, a president who at best is a Muslim Sympathizer or at worse a Muslim, there is much evidence that points to him being a Muslim.
Don McKellar says
All evidence points to him being a moslem. It is virtually irrefutable at this point. Even though he says: “I’m a Christian” he can do that under the tentants of Islamic warfare against the kuffar. You will never, ever hear him say: “I am not a moslem” because moslems believe that you are going to hell if you say that. But it is perfectly okay to say: I’m a Christian because they believe that Jesus was a prophet and the Muhammad superseded him. The infamous Ground Zero Mosque developer let that car out of the bag for general consumption some time ago in an interview.
You will never, ever see Obama say, or find any record of him ever simply saying: “I am not a moslem”. It doesn’t exist.
Bengt Bergström says
Its on the tube when he says hi`s an muslim and thats the reason he act like he do
Jay Boo says
The Obama regime holds a press conferance with Berdahl.
The Obama regime traded 5 terrorists for Berdahl.
Yet,
Children plead for the hostage father to be released. No press conference
Obama, — What useless POS
Iranian American Christian pastor Saeed Abedini is still imprisoned in Iran.
Dear President Obama:
Please help bring our daddy home children plead:
Mark Rosenthal says
True, I did not see it coming but do now……………
Walter Sieruk says
All those poor misguided and deluded Muslims from Russia who are gong to join ISIS only further shows just how terrible Islam can warp a persons mind and heart. As for the hideous violent, brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS it is the outcome or fruits of Islam. Likewise so are the other heinous, vicious jihad organizations the results or fruits of Islam. Such as Hezbollah, Hamas, P.I.J. Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Al Shabaab. etc . So it may be illustrated that if Islam is represented as a tree then those many ruthless, malicious and malice -filled jihad Islamic terror groups are the fruits of that tree. With that stated it thus ,very filling, to site the Wisdom of the teachings of Jesus which ,very much may apply to this topic. For Jesus taught “Ye do know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? Even so every good tree bringth forth good fruit.; but a corrupt tree bringth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” After saying this Jesus told them what He told them then He said “By their fruit ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:16,17,18,20. [K.J.V.] In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion, Proverbs 14;12. John 14:6. First John 2:22,23. 4:14,15. 5:12,13,20.
Don McKellar says
At least that one with the red beard is giving his “Allah salute” in the right direction.
kay says
This is Extremely Important. The Russian government estimate of 3,000 Central Asian nationals is reasonable and also fairly terrifying.
Turkey let all these bad guys cross over to Islamic State ( as well as allowing all the other foreign jihadis to cross ), and this is largely how the Islamic State becomes powerful and dangerous, and a real threat to Damascus. Later experienced capable jihadis will begin the war for Central Asia.
The US State Department is a complete failure in addressing the issue and risks of the current onslaught against Damascus. Damascus is on life support. It is kept propped up by Iranian money ( plus some Chinese help ) and now more Russian military support.
Basically, a set of ten to fifteen Russian attack helicopters ( plus support ) could likely hold off Islamic State et. al. from Damascus and Latakia for some months, maybe, and also cause serious damage to bad guy convoys and cause real problems for the Islamic State capital itself. But the Russians lack strategic co-operation.
President Obama and John Kerry are more concerned to get rid of the Assad regime in Damascus than to protect western Syria, as Russia now does.
If Islamic State wins Damascus in the next six months, expect a program of looting, brutality and genocide. Including genocide, rape and enslavement of Syrian Christians. Plus of course a new wave of refugees from western Syria.
It will be almost impossible for the US or anyone to remove Islamic State from Damascus. Next, Jordan is at high risk, and within two years expect major problems in Central Asia.
This is beyond scary. Within two years the domain and international operations of Islamic State can become much greater. We can fully expect much more chaos, destruction, suffering and international crisis. But Russia and the US are enemies for several reasons and the US and Europe will not work with Russia.
This US based failure to co-operate in strategic terms gives a huge and crucial window of opportunity to Islamic State. Similarly, US policy for the war theaters in North Africa and Nigeria is another huge window for organized jihad across Africa.
Somehow the public and the American administration do not see where all this is going.
The US just doesn’t get what is going on here. The US Administration refuses to understand Islam, jihad and the Islamic State. Thus the bad guys can be expected to win on the Western Front in 2016 and develop a real and viable Islamofascist nation state. Everything is going the wrong way all over due to strategic failure and foreign policy blindness.
Oliver says
And if Shillery or Saunders becomes President- the end of the Us- and the world situation will be much much worse.
Evagirl says
Putin can take them out in Syria and he will have 2,500 less to worry about in Russia.
Angemon says
Yeah, I don’t see them swimming your way, buddy…
Harry_the_Horrible says
The good news is that the Russians are working on cleaning this issue up.
mortimer says
Russia has over 16 MILLION Muslims…that’s over 12% of the population.
The fact that they don’t have a continuous murder and rape jihad going on is tribute to the vigilance of the Russian police and the draconian regime of KLEPTOCRATIC Russia.
Mazo says
Chechen mafia and Yazidi mafia have alot of power in the Russian underworld. They trick slavic Russian girls into becoming prostitutes and export them abroad. Jews are also part of the Russian Mafia and participate in the sex trafficking rackets of slavic Russian women.
There are Yazidis who live in Armenia, and during Soviets time when Armenia and Russia were both one country, some of them migrated from Armenia to Russia.
These Yazidis in Russia became top gangsters in the Russian Mafia. Aslan Usoyan was an infamous Yazidi mafia godfather in Russia.
One of the prime activities of these Yazidi mafia in Russia, is turning Russian slavic girls and women into prostitutes and sex slaves and exporting them to other countries to get trafficked as prostitutes. Some of these Russian girls are just teenagers. These Russian girl prostitutes have been trafficked to the Middle East, China, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Pakistan etc. They also engaged in drug trafficking.
These Yazidi mafia men keep their pimp hands strong from daily smacking of their Russian female chattel. They use military grade firearms unlike Italian Mafia in USA.
Now the activities of these Yazidis in Russia have nothing to do with what is happenning to Yazidis in Iraq. They are not the same individuals and the terrorists in ISIS are raping and killing innocent people.
It is sort of amazing how a puny minority in Russia managed to become top mafia bosses and are able to bully the majority around. The puny Yazidi minority mafia can smack and pimp out Russians with virtual impunity.
Yazidis and Chechens are top mafia bosses in Russia. They both engage in pimping Russian women, drug trafficking and people trafficking.
All it took was for 19th century Russia to annex two tiny nations, Chechnya and Armenia, which resulted in this mafia spreading to Moscow within the past few decades. Biggest mistake Russia made lol.
Come to think of it Yazidis are applying for asylum in the wrong country (Germany).
Instead they could head to Russia, where the Yazidi mafia is well established and could do with many thousands of more members.
The Yazidi godfathers and mafia bosses could use their connections to help Yazidis flee Iraq go to Russia. They have the people trafficking networks, the military grade weapons, and connections with corrupt Russian officials.
In Medieval times the volga Vikings used to sell thousands of Slavic boys as eunuchs and thousands of Slavic girls as sex slaves to Arab harems.
Now Yazidi, Chechen, and Jewish mafiosi sell Slavic women as sex slaves to Arabs and accross the world.
Incek Mahallesi says
And all of your drivel has to do with the article, how?
You know, those 2400 Mozlems who have gone to ISIS?
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More sand-slingling from the Mozlem apologist.
Ignore.
Baucent says
Another tedious mishmash of fiction and half truths that have no relationship to the topic of the post.
Incek Mahallesi says
Baucent:
“Another tedious mishmash of fiction and half truths that have no relationship to the topic of the post.”
Yep. It’s been his MO around here for years. He used to post under “Horse”, then got 86d.
Anyway, yeah. It’s tedious, boring, off-topic Mozlem drivel.
Have a nice evening, Baucent,
IM
Ginger says
I’m not in the USA so I would be very interested to know why the US government are so anti-Putin. It can’t just be because of the Ukraine, the situation provoked by the US allies in Europe in their bid to extend the “United States of Europe”. Yes, be on the alert always, but it seems to me that the West is angling for another Cold War. Yet Russia and the US acting together could wipe out ISIL very quickly.
Hummer says
I can’t imagine Russia letting them back into Russia unless to terminate them unlike the US under Obama whose every action or lack of action shows his 100 per cent backing of muslims regardless what they do. We see his actions as appeasing our enemy but it is his agenda and the question why is going to be answered regardless of what he “thinks.”
Elisheva says
Caroline Glick also mentioned that Putin’s intervention might be a positive thing.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Trading-horses-with-Putin-416505
“… we need to recognize that Putin’s decision to deploy forces in Syria is not necessarily a hostile act. ”
“One of Islamic State’s senior commanders in Syria is Tarkhan Batirashvili, a former Georgian special forces commander trained by the US. According to McClatchy, Batirashvili fought against the Russians in both South Ossetia and in Chechnya. In 2012 he traveled to Turkey where he joined other jihadists in founding IS. Today, Chechens form one of the largest groups of foreign fighters in Islamic State.”…”Putin is deploying forces to Syria because he thinks he has an opportunity to rebuild Russia’s strategic projection in the Middle East through Syrian bases. And he is right.”
kay says
Re: “Caroline Glick also mentioned that Putin’s intervention might be a positive thing.”
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Of course Putin’s defense of Damascus is positive and necessary!
That’s true even tho Putin is a lair, a sociopath, and a grave threat to all of Eastern Europe.
His endangerment of Europe is a big reason why we’d all be so much better off with the Russians fighting in Central Asia and Syria…rather than menacing Europe.
If Putin sends a good set of Ka-52 attack helicopters to Western Syria that could avert genocide for many months and thwart the Islamic State. It could also chew up a thousand or more Central Asian and Russian jihadis.
Here’s the Ka-52
Ка-52 МАКС 2011 Ka-52 MAKS 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i90afxVObO4
Russian Mi-28NE “Havoc” and Ka-52 “Hokum-B” Combat Helicopters Great for Wiping out Daesh in Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqw00AUPHSY
If I held Putin’s role I’d send twenty of these Ka-52 helos and their support teams ( that would be about one thousand military ground personnel ) and just lay waste to ALL the jihadis attacking Damascus, their support routes and anything Islamic State.
Islamic State has major international support ( 25,000 jihadis from ninety nations ), lots of money, vast amounts of American equipment ( enough for a war ) and expert military leadership. Islamic State has gotten great support from Saudi Arabia and Turkey and they are developing a major presence from Nigeria to North Africa. They could well develop a major presence in Central Asia within two years. In which case all hell breaks loose.
I don’t trust the Russians at all. They are dangerous. Let them be dangerous to Islamic State. If Putin’s very mean and dangerous military kills eight thousand Islamic State jihadis then I will go downtown ( in a North American city ) and wave a Russian flag for an hour. That would be be Christmas to me: large numbers of Russian helicopter missions over Syria and thousands of dead Sunni jihadis.
Anyway, every army needs live action for training purposes and Germany is busy taking down Europe by welcoming hundreds of thousands of Muslims this year.
We therefore need some real offense going against Islamic State. I vote for a big set of Russian helicopters in Syria. So they can do what they do best.
Go Putin! Beat Islam!
john hardin says
The Russians won the the WW2 ( it fougth 80% of the German army) for us .
Let them win this one with a hardy go for it IVAN