Moscow Says about 2,400 Russians Joined ISIL

TEHRAN(IQNA) - About 2,400 Russian nationals have joined the Daesh (ISIL pr ISIS) militants, Russia's First Deputy Director of Federal Security Sergei Smirnov was reported as saying on Friday.

RIA news agency quoted Smirnov as saying that in total there are about 3,000 Central Asian nationals fighting within ISIL terrorist group.

ISIL is a Takfiri terrorist group in control of vast territories in Iraq and Syria.

A number of ISIL cells also operate in Saudi Arabia, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan and other locations across the Middle East and North Africa.

The Takfiri terrorists have committed heinous crimes in the areas they control, especially in Syria and Iraq.