In the provincial capital Makhachkala, Russian state-news agency TASS reported that a church security guard was killed in a shootout at Svyato-Uspenskiy Sobor, and 19 people had locked themselves ...

MOSCOW — Russia’s southern region of Dagestan held the first of three days of mourning Monday following a rampage by Islamic militants who authorities say killed 20 people, most of them police ...

On Sunday, June 23, Islamic extremists launched coordinated attacks on churches across Russia’s Muslim-majority Republic of Dagestan, killing 19 people. Included among the dead is an 66-year-old ...

Two synagogues in the Dagestan region of Russia were attacked on Sunday amid a coordinated and deadly attack on houses of worship in two cities. Gunmen attacked a synagogue in Makhachkala, while a ...

Last Sunday the Republic of Dagestan in the south of Russia was rocked by a series of attacks targeting police officers, civilians, Christian churches and synagogues with dozens of people killed ...

Russian authorities say more than 15 police officers and several civilians, including an Orthodox priest, have been killed by armed militants in the southern republic of Dagestan.

Head of Dagestan Sergey Melikov reported that 15 of the dead were police officers. "One of the victims of the terrorist attack, a policeman, died in the hospital tonight," the agency source said.

On the evening of June 23, terrorist attacks were carried out in the Russian cities of Makhachkala and Derbent, located in the impoverished North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on the shores of the ...

Gunmen in Russia's southern Dagestan republic carried out what authorities called a coordinated terrorist attack on Orthodox churches, synagogues and police outposts in two cities, Derbent and ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s southern region of Dagestan held the first of three days of mourning Monday following an attack by Islamic militants who authorities say killed 20 people, mostly police ...

Dagestan is a majority Muslim republic located in southern Russia, next to Georgia. In late October, hundreds of people stormed onto the tarmac at the airport in Makhachkala as a flight from ...