Russia Today
| Apr 19, 2013
Has the North Caucasus conflict reached the US? The Boston bomb suspects have been identified as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, brothers of Chechen origin. Their family emigrated to the US more than a decade ago and it's not clear whether they ha...
Euronews
| Mar 7, 2012
A female suicide bomber has killed at least five police officers at a traffic checkpoint in the Dagestan region of southern Russia, officials there said on Wednesday. The woman blew herself up late on Tuesday night in the village of Karabudakent, ...
Euronews
| Feb 27, 2012
Russian and Ukrainian secret services have foiled a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, state television in Russia reported on Monday. The pro-Kremlin Channel One station broadcast footage purporting to show the plotters at work. ...
— last Friday at 05:58 pm
...insurgency, formerly confined to the adjacent republic of Chechnya, has spread across the North Caucasus in recent years, with attacks on securi...
— last Tuesday at 07:35 am
...May 20, 2013. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian security forces killed two suspected militants in the North Caucasus during a night-time sweep in the r...
— last Tuesday at 07:26 am
...a police spokesperson as saying. Thirty-five people, including a three-year-old child, have been hospitalised. No children were killed in the bl...
The insurgency in the North Caucasus continues despite the official end of the decade-long Second Chechen War on 15 April 2009. The violence is concentrated mostly in the North Caucasus republics of Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria, with only occasional clashes and bombings elsewhere, but there are also concerns it may compromise safety of the planned 2014 Winter Olympics.
(via Freebase)
