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At least 16 people are killed and 13 others are injured in Dagestan, Russia, when gunmen open fire on a synagogue and an Orthodox church in Derbent and on a traffic police post in Makhachkala.
2024-06-23

A mob storms Uytash Airport in Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia, as a Red Wings Airlines flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, arrives, shouting antisemitic slogans and attempting to board the plane.
2023-10-29

Eight people are injured as a teenager detonates an improvised explosive device, in an attempt to blow himself up, at a Russian Orthodox school near a convent in Serpukhov, Russia. The perpetrator is identified as a student at the school, and is currently hospitalised in critical condition.
2021-12-13

Russian authorities say nine insurgents who were planning to launch an attack next month have been killed in a gunfight in Derbent, Dagestan.
2018-04-22

A car bomb kills two policemen at a checkpoint in Russia's republic of Dagestan.
2016-02-15

The Associated Press reports that Russia's crackdown on Muslims is fueling their exodus to ISIS. For example, Russia's southernmost republic of Dagestan keeps devout Muslims under surveillance, routinely raids their homes, and hauls them to police stations to give DNA samples and fingerprints. Regional police say nearly a third of the estimated 3,000 Russians who are believed to have gone to fight alongside IS militants in Syria are from Dagestan. The AP added, "Few efforts are made by Russian authorities to stop young men from leaving."
2015-11-25

A bomb detonates in a busy shopping center in Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia, killing 3 and injuring 2 others.
2013-05-1

Two Russian soldiers and several militants are killed in clashes in Ingushetia in the North Caucasus; several militants are also killed in Dagestan.
2012-07-21

Russian security forces kill three rebels in Buinaksk in the Caucasus region of Dagestan.
2010-11-14

Two Russian police and seven militants are killed in firefights in the southern republic of Dagestan while thirty people are injured in a suicide bombing.
2010-09-25