Sergei Melikov, the governor of Dagestan, said on Monday that Islamic “sleeper cells” under foreign direction carried out the bloody attacks on churches and synagogues that killed at least 21 people on Sunday.
At least 21 people have been killed in a large coordinated terror attack on two synagogues, two churches, and a police outpost.
The Investigative Committee said the same gunmen had raided another police checkpoint in the region a week before, killing two police.
Six alleged members of the Islamic State group were killed in a shootout in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region on Sunday.
China’s military reportedly joined large-scale Russian drills on Monday in southern Russia, part of the two nations’ continued efforts to increase their military cooperation.
Russian lawmaker Rauf Arashukov was arrested in the middle of a parliamentary session on Wednesday to face organized crime charges, including links to two politically-motivated contract killings.
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has urged Russia and the West to join forces against terrorism during a visit to Moscow, after ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack which killed six men in Chechnya. According to German state broadcaster
Russian authorities have apprehended at least seven people for allegedly plotting to carry out terrorist attacks on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) during the New Year’s celebrations in Moscow.
Russia’s FSB security service claimed on Sunday to have killed Rustam Magomedovich Aselderov, the head of an ISIS-aligned militant group in Dagestan, along with four of his close associates.
The Islamic State’s latest propaganda video targets Russia, referring to President Vladimir Putin as an “apostate,” threatening imminent terror attacks, and calling upon Russian Muslims to seize territory and implement sharia law.
Contents: Number of foreign fighters joining ISIS in Syria doubles to 31,000; About 700 women from Tunisia are thought to have joined ISIS; Return of Russia’s foreign fighters from Syria threatens Russian security
While the world concentrates on Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) inches closer to Russia’s North Caucasus region. Militants in Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Kabardino-Balkaria declared allegiance to the terrorist group.
The Kremlin and militant websites claim Russian forces killed Aliaskhab Kebekov, leader of the Caucasus Emirate insurgent group, in Dagestan. He died along with four other militants.
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