Overview

• First hearings began August 4 before a military tribunal with sessions scheduled Monday through Thursday
• The defendants include four alleged Tajik gunmen and 15 accomplices charged with providing logistical support
• Prosecutors accuse the group of executing the March 2024 assault that killed 149 and injured 609
• Russian investigators assert that a hostile state’s intelligence service orchestrated the attack despite ISIS’s claim of responsibility
• U.S. authorities arrested ISIS handler Mohammad Sharifullah in March, whose statements may illuminate the network’s chain of command