ISIS Claims Knife Attack in Capital of Russia’s Southern Chechnya

Chechen special forces guard a road in Grozny February 19, 2008. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov

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07:13-1 January 2021 AD ـ 18 Jumada Al-Ula 1442 AH

Asharq Al Awsat

07:13-1 January 2021 AD ـ 18 Jumada Al-Ula 1442 AH

ISIS Claims Knife Attack in Capital of Russia’s Southern Chechnya

Chechen special forces guard a road in Grozny February 19, 2008. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov

ISIS has claimed responsibility for a knife attack on police on Monday in the capital of Russia’s southern Chechnya region, Al-Naba newspaper affiliated with the group said on Friday.

It made the claim without providing any evidence, according to Reuters.

Two assailants killed one policeman and injured another on Monday in Grozny, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said.

The region has seen previous attacks on security officials and an insurgency since Moscow fought two wars with separatists after the 1991 Soviet Union breakup.

Kadyrov said the attackers were brothers from the neighboring region of Ingushetia who worked at a bakery in Chechnya.

They were shot dead while trying to seize weapons, he said.

Israel Doesn't Want Regime Change in Iran, Says FM

Iranians stand in front of a billboard carrying pictures of late Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Mohammad Bagheri, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) head Hossein Salami, Commander of the IRGC's Aerospace Force Amir Ali Hajizadeh, scientists Fereidun Abbasi, and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi during an anti-Israel rally in Tehran, Iran, 14 June 2025. (EPA)

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Israel Doesn't Want Regime Change in Iran, Says FM

Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Sunday that the goal of its military campaign in Iran “is not a regime change.”

“This is for the Iranian people to decide,” Saar said in an interview on CNN. He said the Israeli security Cabinet set the objective as eliminating Iran's nuclear program and minimizing its ballistic missile threat.

“I believe what we are doing, as an ally for the US and for the Western civilization as a whole, is critical for stability in this part of the world,” Saar said, adding: “If we learn something from our history, when somebody says 'I'm going to eliminate the Jews,' take him at his word.”

He said Iran was within six months of being able to build as many as nine nuclear bombs.

Iran's foreign minister was scheduled to also be interviewed on CNN but had to cancel at the last minute, the network said.

ISIS Claims Knife Attack in Capital of Russia’s Southern Chechnya

ISIS Claims Knife Attack in Capital of Russia’s Southern Chechnya

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