CAIRO, March 23 (Reuters) - Islamic State released on Saturday a photo of what it said were the four attackers behind a shooting rampage that killed at least 143 people in a concert hall near Moscow on Friday, the militant group’s Amaq news agency said on Telegram.

“The attack comes within the context of a raging war between the Islamic State and countries fighting Islam,” Amaq added in a statement citing security sources.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack but there were indications that Russia was pursuing a Ukrainian link, despite emphatic denials from Ukrainian officials that Kyiv had anything to do with it.

  • statist43@feddit.deEnglish
    8·
    8 months ago

    What are they even attacking russia, there is israel right infront of them killing other muslims…

    • Talaraine@fedia.io
      21·
      8 months ago

      Heheh you act like russia hasn’t been poking them in the eye for decades. Plus, they prob had this attack in the works long before Hamas attacked.

    • rbesfe@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      8 months ago

      ISIS doesn’t care about other Muslims, and in fact seems to hate them quite strongly

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        8 months ago

        ISIS is Sunni (the majority of Muslims) and the Sunni extremists like ISIS hate the Shia Muslims (mostly Iraq and Iran).

        • rbesfe@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          I have a hard time believing that ISIS would give a shit about more moderate Sunnis.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      Hamas and ISIS are technically at war according to their leadership but that’s only because the leaders disagree on who should be in charge after they genocide all the Jews and Christians in the middle east. In reality, Hamas and ISIS share a number of members.