DUSHANBE, October 18. /TASS/. The redeployment of Middle East militants to other regions bolsters the positions of terrorist organizations in Afghanistan and poses a serious threat to the Central Asian region, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon said.

"Under the current conditions, the redeployment of terrorist fighters from the Middle East to other regions and, in connection with this, the strengthening of the positions of international terrorist organizations in Afghanistan pose a serious threat to Central Asian countries," Rahmon said in his speech at a high-level conference on international and regional cooperation in combatting terrorism, which began its work in Dushanbe on Tuesday.

Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov, Chief of the CSTO’s Joint Staff, recently reported that international terrorist groups have become more active in Afghanistan, and some 400 fighters from the Islamic State (IS, outlawed in Russia - TASS) have moved into the northern provinces of the country with the aim of committing terrorist attacks.