MOSCOW — Attacks on churches and synagogues in Russia's southwestern Dagestan region killed primarily police officers, officials said on Monday, announcing a toll of at least 19 dead after violence that stoked fears of Islamist violence in the historically restive North Caucasus.
MOSCOW — Attacks on churches and synagogues in Russia's southwestern Dagestan region killed primarily police officers, officials said on Monday, announcing a toll of at least 19 dead after violence that stoked fears of Islamist violence in the historically restive North Caucasus.The assaults launched on Sunday come just three months after Islamic State group fighters killed more than 140 people in a Moscow concert hall, the deadliest terror attack on Russia in almost 20 years.
Sergei Melikov , head of the Russian Republic of Dagestan, visits the damaged Kele-Numaz synagogue in Dagestan’s city of Derbent, southern Russia, on June 24, 2024. The incidents also had echoes of the kind of insurgent violence that marred the North Caucasus during the 1990s and 2000s.Russia has been a target for IS terror in recent years, with the fundamentalist group opposing Moscow's military support for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and claiming to have set up a 'franchise' in Russia's northern Caucasus.
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