Russian lawmakers on Monday quickly blamed external forces, including Ukraine and NATO, for terrorist attacks on Sunday that killed at least 20 people in Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim region of ...

Medical authorities in Dagestan said 16 people, including 13 police, were hospitalized with injuries, and with four officers in grave condition. Russian news reports said the attackers included ...

The spokeswoman for Dagestan's interior ministry, Gayana Gariyeva, had earlier told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency that a 66-year-old Russian Orthodox priest was among those killed.

In Dagestan, Russian security forces fought an Islamist insurgency in the mountainous region in the 2000s that spilled over from neighboring Chechnya, though attacks have become rarer in recent years.

What happened in Derbent and Makhachkala Reports of shootings in the two largest cities of Dagestan appeared around 18:00. Unknown assailants attacked the Church of the Intercession of the Holy ...

Dagestan and, more generally, Russia’s south have been no stranger to extremist violence. Russia fought two wars against separatist militants in the Russian republic of Chechnya, to Dagestan’s ...

Three police officers were killed and at least four people were injured when gunmen opened fire on police in the southern ...

Melikov, the Dagestan governor, said Sunday that also among the dead were a Russian Orthodox believer and 18 Muslims. The Kele-Numaz synagogue in Derbent also was set ablaze. Shortly after the ...