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The disappeared men in Daghestan’s ‘fake war on terror’

18 September 2018 by Saida Vagabova

Screen­shot from a video from a coun­tert­er­ror­ism operation in Botlikh, Daghestan, in March 2018 (Inves­tiga­tive Committee of the Russian Fed­er­a­tion /YouTube)

For several years, young Dagh­es­tani men have been dis­ap­pear­ing, reported missing by their families only later to be declared ‘destroyed in coun­tert­er­ror­ism oper­a­tions’. Evidence from the families of many of these men as well as local rights groups and experts, suggest they may have been kidnapped by the author­i­ties, and that faking the war on terror is just another face of Daghestan’s raging cor­rup­tion.

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Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: abduction, counterterrorism operation, CTO, dagestan, daghestan, disappearance, disappeared, extremism, isis, islamic state, north caucasus, russia, terrorism

Kabardino-Balkaria’s commission on former militants — handcuffed by police ambitions?

10 September 2018 by Aslan Urumov

Nalchik Airport (aviateka.su)

The Com­mis­sion on adap­ta­tion of militants coming back from Syria to peaceful life has func­tioned in Kabardino-Balkaria for over 6 years. Despite its mandate to rein­te­grate former militants into society, a number of high-profile pros­e­cu­tions has raised doubts over the author­i­ties’ true com­mit­ment to peace­ful­ly returning them to civilian life.

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Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: extremism, isis, islamic state, jihad, kabardino-balkaria, kbr, north caucasus, police, reintegration, russia, syria

Daghestani ‘Islamic State militants’ detained in Moscow

16 October 2017 by OC Media

(Screen­shot /Russia’s National Antiter­ror­ism Committee)

Four natives of Daghestan have been detained in Moscow accused by the National Antiter­ror­ism Committee of being sup­port­ers of the Islamic State.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: dagestan, daghestan, is, isis, islamic state, militants, moscow, terrorism

Five Chechen and Daghestani children return from Iraq

12 October 2017 by OC Media

Tatyana Moskalko­va and Ziyad Sabsabi meet the children returned from Iraq (ombudsmanrf.org)

A chartered plane from Iraq landed in Moscow on October 11, with five children from Chechnya and Dagestan on board. The children’s parents had joined up to fight for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq several years ago.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: chechnya, children, daghestan, iraq, isis, islamic state, syria

Four ‘Islamic State militants’ killed in North Ossetia

10 September 2017 by OC Media

Screen­shot from a video posted by Russia’s National Antiter­ror­ism Committee, showing three militants pledging alle­giance to IS.

Russia’s National Antiter­ror­ism Committee announced on 6 September that the author­i­ties had elim­i­nat­ed four alleged IS-connected militants in North Ossetia, who they claim had planned to attack police.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: is, isis, islamic state, north ossetia, police, terrorism

Wives and children of Islamic State militants return home

9 September 2017 by Aida Mirmaksumova

Women and children arrive in Grozny from Mosul (Rita Roytman/OC Media)

Four women and eight children arrived in Grozny on the evening of 1 September from the Iraqi city of Mosul. They were returning from Syria, where they had traveled with their husbands to join the Islamic State. Together with their relatives, OC Media’s special cor­re­spon­dent was waiting for them in the airport.

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Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: chechnya, children, daghestan, family, iraq, isis, islamic state, kazakhstan, militants, syria, women

Counter-Terrorism Operation in several Daghestani villages

20 March 2017 by OC Media

(vestikavkaza.ru)

Police are searching for alleged militants and their accom­plices in the Dagh­es­tani city Khasavyurt and three villages in the north of the republic. A Counter-Terrorism Operation (CTO) has been declared. The CTO regime was intro­duced in the morning of 19 March in Khasavyurt, Kizilyurt, and Kazbekovsky districts. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: anti-terrorism, daghestan, isis, special operation, terrorism

Islamic State has recruited 200 Ingush fighters

28 January 2017 by OC Media

Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria, approx­i­mate­ly 200 people from Ingushetia have joined the Islamic State. Of these, about 50 have died and 10 have returned to Ingushetia, according to Ingushetia’s acting Minister of Internal Affairs, Yury Muravyev.

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Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: ingushetia, isis, islamic state

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