Another person accused of being involved in the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall has been arrested, Sputnik's correspondent reports from the court in Moscow.

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Did US ‘have a hand’ in creating ISIS?

Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, highlighted in an op-ed that the Americans "had a hand" in forming ISIS*, a terrorist group responsible for deadly attacks worldwide.

The Russian diplomat’s remarks made sense, given that “in many cases” one can find “convergence of interest between terrorist organizations and the American ruling elite,” Hasan Abdullah, a political scientist at Global Security & Strategy Institute and expert on Islamic militancy, tells Sputnik.

“If you look at the context of American foreign policy, where there's little room for any sort of moral imperatives, it's understandable why this convergence of interest can sometimes pave the way for the Americans allowing some of these terrorist organizations to grow up as mushrooms,” the pundit says.

Abdullah emphasized that many "powerful US lobbies and groups benefit from war and instability everywhere in the world," addressing questions about the timing of Al-Baghdadi's release from prison before assuming leadership of ISIS.

The political scientist notes that it's very clear and well-documented that individuals linked to Western intelligence agencies or former members of Western special forces were found operating within ISIS.

Echoing him is Syed Fakhar Kakakhel, a Peshawar-based senior journalist specializing in covering politics and militancy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, who tells Sputnik that it was the factor of wars in the region that added to ISIS' creation.

“The majority of analysts believe that the wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East by the West have brought destruction and chaos rather than peace in these regions. Due to these wars, militant organizations like Al-Qaeda*, ETIM*, IMU*, and ISIS have been created putting global peace at risk,” Kakakhel notes.

*Terrorist groups banned in Russia and many other countries.

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Nuclear innovation in focus: Rosatom CEO reflects on record-breaking Atomexpo Forum

Alexey Likhachev, CEO of Rosatom, celebrated a record-breaking Atomexpo forum attendance with representatives from 75 countries and over a thousand guests, highlighting the focus on nuclear technology.

The agenda centered on advancements in the fourth generation of nuclear power, including projects like the Proryv Project in Seversk, Russia.

Likhachev also emphasized the importance of broadening the forum's agenda to include non-nuclear topics. He stressed the consensus among speakers on the necessity of expanding nuclear technology to address environmental challenges and the harmful impact of political restrictions on nuclear development.

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How much money has the US military-industrial complex made by inflating the prices of weapons sent to Ukraine?

From 1991 to 2023, the price of the American Stinger increased by 16 times, from $25,000 to $400,000, but this is not the only weapon that has seen an increase.

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Marines of Russia's Pacific Fleet captured a Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold and four prisoners.

After the artillerymen and kamikaze drone operators inflicted fire damage, a group of Marines of Russia's Pacific Fleet moved to storm the Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold.

"They [Ukrainian soldiers] immediately raised their hands, they divulged the location of their electronic warfare station and our artillery got to work, that's it. Just a perfect assault, not a single wounded", one of the Russian soldiers said.

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Hamas confirms readiness to participate in immediate prisoner exchange with Israel, according to its statement.

The organization also welcomes the adoption of UN Security Council resolution on a ceasefire during Ramadan, but says a permanent ceasefire is needed.

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Trump urges Israel to seek peace in Gaza

“You have to finish up your war. And we gotta get to peace, we can't have this going on. And I will say, Israel has to be very careful, because you're losing a lot of the world, you're losing a lot of support, you have to finish up, you have to get the job done. And you have to get on to peace, to get on to a normal life for Israel, and for everybody else,” the former US President said in an interview with the Israel Hayom newspaper.

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Why Crocus City Hall terror attack spells reputational damage for West

Team Biden's immediate and insistent claims that Ukraine wasn't behind the Crocus City Hall terror attack amid the still ongoing investigation have been taken with a grain of salt by international observers, whereas the ISIS* statement of responsibility prompted assumptions of the CIA's involvement in the attack among netizens.

These reactions are not surprising given the Obama and Biden administration's messy foreign policy conduct, according to Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel.

He notes that US politicians, including Joe Biden and the Clintons, apparently have deep, unexplained ties to oligarchs and individuals inside Ukraine, which provide them with a motif to shield the Kiev regime at all costs.

When it comes to a possible jihadi trace, this again turns a spotlight on the US foreign policy establishment and NATO that have sown havoc in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia for decades, the analyst says.

"Vaunted (and patently undeserved) Nobel Peace laureate Barack Obama spent eight long years upending national governments in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere to the profound detriment of American interests," Ortel highlights.

The controversy over the 2022 Nord Stream attack also dealt a blow to Team Biden's credibility: If Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh is right, Joe Biden and his aides could be complicit in nothing short of an act of international terrorism. So far, neither Europeans nor Washington have found the "real" culprits.

*Terrorist groups banned in Russia and many other countries.

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⚡️ Putin: We know who committed the attack in Crocus City Hall, we are interested who the ordering customer is.

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⚡️Vladimir Putin: Through various channels, the United States is trying to convince everyone that there is allegedly no trace of Kiev in the bloody terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall, that it was ISIS.

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❗️WATCH: Vladimir Putin holds a meeting on the measures taken after the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.

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⚡️Putin called the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall a link in a whole series of attempts by those who have been fighting Russia since 2014 at the hands of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime.

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⚡️Putin: A new 'Hitler Youth' is being created in Ukraine.

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⚡️Vladimir Putin: We need to answer the question why the terrorists tried to go to Ukraine after committing a crime in the Crocus City Hall, who was waiting for them there?

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⚡️Those supporting Kiev regime do not want to be accomplices to terror, but there are many questions, Vladimir Putin said.

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Results of the investigation indicate that the terrorist attack in Crocus city hall was planned, resulting in 139 deaths, Russian Investigative Committee head Bastrykin said.

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The investigation has established a complete chronology of the events in the Crocus city hall, Bastrykin said.

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The defendants in the Crocus terrorist attack provided detailed testimony about the instigators and those who assisted in its preparation, Bastrykin added.

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EU intelligence cooperating with Russian Special Services after Crocus City Hall terrorist attack, according to European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.

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