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Russia Says Killed ISIS Member Plotting Presidential Election Attack

A man walks past the headquarters of the FSB, or Federal Security Service, in central Moscow on Dec. 30, 2016. (Vasily Maximov / AFP/Getty Images)
A man walks past the headquarters of the FSB, or Federal Security Service, in central Moscow on Dec. 30, 2016. (Vasily Maximov / AFP/Getty Images)
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Russia Says Killed ISIS Member Plotting Presidential Election Attack

A man walks past the headquarters of the FSB, or Federal Security Service, in central Moscow on Dec. 30, 2016. (Vasily Maximov / AFP/Getty Images)
A man walks past the headquarters of the FSB, or Federal Security Service, in central Moscow on Dec. 30, 2016. (Vasily Maximov / AFP/Getty Images)

Russia's FSB security agency said Thursday it had killed an ISIS militant in the provincial city of Nizhny Novgorod as he was plotting an attack on the country’s presidential election day next month.

The FSB said the man "was ready to carry out a sabotage and terrorist attack on the day of presidential elections" on March 18 when Vladimir Putin is expected to win a fourth Kremlin term.

The man resisted arrest and was "neutralized," the FSB said in a statement, while state television showed footage of the man's dead body lying in what appears to be a garage scattered with hub caps and boxes.

Security forces said they found a powerful homemade explosive device as well as firearms and ammunition during the raid in the large industrial city around 400 kilometers east of Moscow.

The agency said it had information the man was a citizen of one of the countries neighboring Russia, without giving further details.

Another ISIS militant was killed by police in the same city in October 2016.

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Israel Launches Communications Satellite from Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifts off at Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center before the launch of Axiom Space Axiom Mission on June 25, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images/AFP
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifts off at Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center before the launch of Axiom Space Axiom Mission on June 25, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images/AFP
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Israel Launches Communications Satellite from Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifts off at Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center before the launch of Axiom Space Axiom Mission on June 25, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images/AFP
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifts off at Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center before the launch of Axiom Space Axiom Mission on June 25, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images/AFP

Israel on Sunday said it had launched a new national communications satellite on board a SpaceX rocket from the United States.

The Dror 1 satellite was blasted into orbit on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the foreign ministry said.

"This $200 million 'smartphone in space' will power Israel's strategic and civilian communications for 15 years," the ministry wrote on X.

Accompanying video footage showed the reusable, two-stage rocket lift off into the night sky. SpaceX said the launch happened at 1:04 am in Florida (0504 GMT Sunday).

IAI, which called the launch "a historic leap for Israeli space technology", said when it announced the project to develop and build Dror 1 that it was "the most advanced communication satellite ever built in Israel".

In September 2016, an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket exploded during a test in Florida, destroying Israel's Amos-6 communications satellite, which was estimated to have cost between $200 and 300 million.