Shanghai Cooperation Organization prevents 181 terrorist attacks last year
The head of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s counterterrorism committee announced that member countries’ intelligence services prevented 181 terrorist attacks in 2023.
Ruslan Mirzayev added that 214 foreign mercenaries were detained over the last year, without providing details about their identities.
Russian news agency Ria Novosti on Thursday stated that in 2023, they also suppressed 95 cells of terrorist organizations.
According to Mirzayev, the intelligence services of member countries of this organization also found and arrested 214 foreign fighters and 1,185 members and accomplices of international terrorist organizations in 2023. Thirteen channels of financing and 26 channels of illegal migration were discovered, which were being used for terrorist and extremist purposes.
In the countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in 2023, 14 channels of illegal arms smuggling were also identified, along with the seizure of 1,589 firearms, 777 explosive devices, 188 kilograms of explosives, and over 660 tons of narcotics based on regional anti-terrorism structure data.
Some of these countries, also members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, have repeatedly expressed concerns about the infiltration of extremists from Afghanistan into Central Asia following the Taliban’s return to power in 2021.
Russia, Iran, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Pakistan are members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Kazakhstan held the chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization from July 5, 2023, to June 2024.
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