Foreign fighters have been a significant and growing part of the Syrian rebellion for quite some time. Combatants have entered the country mainly from Northern Africa, notably Libya where fighters from their own rebellion have hoped to “export” the revolution.
But the latest reports are that significant amounts of rebel fighters have been flocking to Syria from Chechnya, with one group calling itself the Brigade of Migrants being led by a Chechen and composed of fighters from Russia’s North Caucasus.
There have been off and on reports of handfuls of Chechen fighters coming into Syria, but today’s reports suggest this has grown from a few isolated fighters here and there into a bonafide movement of Chechen militants who fought the Russian occupation moving into Syria to fight against a Russian ally.
It is not principally Russia’s role in Syria that is motivating the fighters, however. Rather their leaders are exhorting them that an “Islamist state is within reach” and that, alongside the other Islamist factions that increasingly run the rebellion, Syria can be transformed into a fundamentalist Sunni state.
I always thought that Islamist fighters were going from war to war, and this is more proof.
Our wars, the Russians and ourselves, have created monsters…..I say the rationalists will have to back the goon Syrian government in order to crush these cockroaches.
I say that our voting majority, our 51% most wealthy and greedy, have got themselves on a fast track to where surely a vengeance driven world will soon put them all out of their misery.
Old news under new guise. Just trying to spoil Russia image.
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Here is the video, created in January, but Kavkaz Center from time to time writes about one or another Chechen who perished in Syria . One died last year, was a son of the Chechen Amir Gelayev.
Here is a video showing another Chehcen dying in Syria just recently.
This noxious Center is located in Finland, and is virulently anti-Russian, but communicate Mujaheeds in Russian )) They openly discuss if they should concentrate on fighting in Russia, or go to Syria, Somali and some other "hot" places..
Yesterday several more of them met Allah in fighting in Syria. Good riddance.