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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that it was "extremely hard to believe" that Islamic State would have had the capacity to launch an attack on a Moscow concert hall last Friday that killed at least 140 people.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the massacre and U.S. officials say they have intelligence showing it was carried out by the network's Afghan branch, Islamic State Khorasan.

Putin blames ‘radical Islamists’President Vladimir Putin on Monday acknowledged for the first time that “radical Islamists” were behind last week’s at.

The Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, has claimed responsibility for the deadly assault on a concert venue in Moscow, marking Russias worst terror attack in decades.

Putin has acknowledged for the first time that “radical Islamists” were behind last week’s attack on a concert hall outside Moscow.

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Monday acknowledged for the first time that “radical Islamists” were behind...

United States strongly condemned the

Charged with hunting down Ukrainian saboteurs inside Russia, with keeping anti-Kremlin activists in check, and with disrupting the operations of hostile foreign intelligence agencies, the FSB, the main successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB, has its hands full.

The U.S. has shared intelligence warnings to Russia, including the recent attack at a concert hall in Moscow, under the "duty to warn" tenet of the U.S. intelligence community. This duty is aimed at sharing knowledge of a dire threat if conditions allow, whether its allies, adversaries, or somewhere in between. Theres little sign that Russia acted to head off Fridays attack, which killed more than 130 people.

President Vladimir Putins swift blaming of Ukraine for the Moscow concert hall attack raises questions about the complex dynamics between Russia, ISIS, and global geopolitics.