Intelligence services of CIS countries to strengthen co-op in fight against terrorism

The intelligence services of the CIS countries have agreed to deepen cooperation in the fight against terrorism and extremism, Report informs referring to the Kyrgyz media.

The decision was made following the First CIS Conference on Combating Terrorism and Extremism.

The State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan reported that the heads of the special services reviewed the trends in the formation and development of terrorist threats in the CIS space and expressed their concern about the situation in Afghanistan and a number of Middle Eastern states, which is creating hotbeds of tension near the borders of the CIS.

“They expressed concern about the increasing risks of militants of international terrorist groups entering the territories of the states of the Central Asian region, including through migration channels and refugee flows,” the State Committee for National Security said in a statement.

The intelligence services drew attention to the leakage of weapons and ammunition from zones of military conflicts and the use by terrorists of the latest information and technical achievements - artificial intelligence technologies, unmanned and robotic systems.