Thousands of foreign fighters fought alongside the Syrian rebel groups that toppled the Assad dictatorship. Many plan to stay ...

The last inhabitant of the city died in 2015 after living alone for years, keeping bees and writing a book on religion.

You are laughed at behind youur back in Dagestan. Lazy you are, they say. Fight me and make a 100 million dollars and give it to the entire village of Dagestan! But you won't, why? Fat lazy scared ...

You are laughed at behind your back in Dagestan. Lazy you are, they say. Fight me and make a 100 million dollars and give it to the entire village of Dagestan! But you won’t, why? Fat lazy ...

You are laughed at behind your back in Dagestan. Lazy you are, they say. Fight me and make a 100 million dollars and give it to the entire village of Dagestan! But you won’t, why? Fat lazy ...

You are laughed at behind your back in Dagestan. Lazy you are, they say. Fight me and make a 100 million dollars and give it to the entire village of Dagestan! But you won’t, why? Fat lazy ...

Co-ordinated attacks in Dagestan’s two main cities ... only surviving Beslan gunman’s father back in 2004, in a remote village in the Chechen hills. A tiny man, in a kufi hat and silver ...

In a separate attack, the Dagestan interior ministry said that in a village 65 kilometres (40 miles) from Makhachkala, called Sergokal, gunmen had shot at a police car, wounding one officer.

MAKHACHKALA, December 7 (Itar-Tass) — The head of a village administration and his cousin were killed on Friday in the Karabudahkent district of Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan ...

Saida, who never tells me her real name, is in her early 20s and lives in a village outside Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, the restive southern republic of Russia that borders Chechnya on ...