In a 15 August 2018 Washington Post story , regional expert Paul Stronski , a Senior Fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , said a 31 July 2018 attack on seven Western cyclists in Tajikistan is being blamed on members of the party even though ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack . Other news reports noted that the five attackers appeared in a video released by ISIS after the attack pledging allegiance to the group and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
attack on seven Western cyclists in Tajikistan
Terrorist attack against cyclists in Tajikistan
Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan