Leaders in Central Asia are being urged to work together, share intelligence and create a ‘front of resistance’ against the Islamic State. This was said by Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan at the 4th Moscow Conference on International Security.
Central Asia is very ripe and conducive for the militants to invade as it is still recuperating from the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The region has very porous borders that allow for the undetected entry of jihadist in and out of Syria.
Central Asia, the Caucasus, Western China, Europe and India are the ones most at risk of receiving ISIS members who have been trained and radicalized in countries supported the Islamists.
Some of the countries that have already started experiencing the presence of the ISIS by way of terror groups in the country’s pledging allegiance are Uzbekistan through the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
ISIS has become a global nuisance and has seen the alliances of the most of unlike people in the war to eradicate it. The same group is reported to have caused at least 220,000 deaths since its breakout.
