Russian ISIS

Many of the 3000 Russian fighters in Syria are from Dagestan hamlet of Komsomolskoe, an enclave tightly and brutally controlled by Putin's  security forces. A recent survey of the area suggested that many of the young Muslim men who joined ISIS did so due to harsh treatment by the Russian police, a policy surely to backfire in the years ahead as the religious war intensifies.

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