SSSG: 50 Georgian citizens are fighting in Syria and Iraq

The report presented today to MPs by Levan Izoriya, Deputy Head of the State Security Service of Georgia (SSSG), notes that during the last year the Service took steps to prevent citizens' departure to Syria and Iraq.

"Today, in Syria and Iraq with a terrorist aim, there are up to 50 Georgian citizens. Several hundreds other citizens were put under the frontier controls. In total, this control, implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), covers 1286 persons; and 1014 are prohibited from entering Georgia. On the basis of operative information, the Service stopped 40 attempts of Georgian citizens to go to the conflict zone," the "Georgia-Online" quotes the report of the SSSG.

The report also stresses that the SSSG is "constantly exchanging information with the respective bodies of partner countries about the persons-members of the terrorist organization 'Islamic State' (IS) and those in contact with it, as well as about the foreign citizens, who are trying to use the territory of Georgian as a transit area," the "Interfax-Azerbaijan" reports.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.