... the successor to the KGB...
announced the arrest of two supporters of the jihadist group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State..., organization, who were planning to carry out a terrorist attack in the Crimea region.
The authority confirmed in a statement issued on Friday that the detainees (two Russian citizens, born in 1992 and 1999) were planning to carry out an armed attack, using improvised bombs, on an educational institution in the capital of the Crimean Republic, the city of Simferopol.
The commission indicated that the bully boys, after carrying out the attack, were planning to go through Ukraine and
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
to Syria to join the ranks of the bully boys.
The authority pointed out that security personnel found, in the detainees’ residence, kabooms and components for the manufacture of bombs with shrapnel, in addition to instructions and written and audio messages exchanged between the detainees and representatives of terrorists.
A criminal case has been filed on charges of manufacturing explosive bombs, terrorist propaganda and supporting terrorism, and the prosecution is also studying the possibility of charging the detainees with planning a terrorist attack.
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
, was established in Syria in 2017; it currently controls large parts of Idlib Governorate in the northwestern part of the country.