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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A mixed martial arts fighter and relatives of a regional official were among the gunmen who carried out attacks on places of worship in Russia’s Dagestan on Sunday, according to local authorities.

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 ...