<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Russia’s FSB security service said today it had killed Islamic State fighters who were planning a “terrorist attack” on a Moscow synagogue, Russian state news agencies reported.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The FSB said an IS cell based in Kaluga, southwest of Moscow, had been planning to shoot Jewish worshippers at a synagogue in the capital.</div><div><br></div><div>“While being arrested, the terrorists put up armed resistance to the Russian FSB officers, and as a result were neutralised by return fire,” the TASS news agency quoted the security service as saying in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>“Firearms, ammunition, as well as components for the manufacture of an improvised explosive device were found and seized,” it added.</div><div><br></div><div>The Zvezda news outlet, close to Russia’s army and security apparatus, published an FSB video appearing to show two dead bodies inside a house, alongside guns, ammunition and knives found during a search.</div><div><br></div><div>The FSB did not say how many people were killed in the operation.</div><div><br></div><div>It said the fighters were members of the Afghan branch of Islamic State, but did not state their citizenship.</div><div><br></div><div>Russian authorities frequently announce the thwarting of planned attacks by suspected Islamist groups.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier this month the FSB said it killed six suspected IS fighters in the Muslim-majority southern region of Ingushetia.</div><div><br></div><div>Tensions between Russia’s Muslim and Jewish communities have flared at times during the Israel-Hamas war.</div><div><br></div><div>Last October, protesters stormed an airport in Dagestan, another Muslim-majority region in the Caucasus, after a plane arrived from Tel Aviv. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>