To many casual Russia watchers out there, it might seem that the recent military confrontation between Iran and Israel went ...

The republic of Chechnya’s financial dependence on the Russian federal government remains the highest in the country, with ...

Chechnya's brutal dictator appeared to pour flames on simmering tensions between the two republics, when he announced a blood feud on two politicians from Dagestan and one from Ingushetia.

1999 - Chechen fighters clash with Russian troops on the Chechnya-Dagestan border; Chechen rebels carry out armed incursions into Dagestan in a bid to create an Islamic state..

However, the attack on Dagestan, and the Moscow apartment bombings in September 1999, led Moscow to reassert control over Chechnya, launching the Second Chechen War.

Chechnya borders both Dagestan and Ingushetia, and Kadyrov has in the past laid claim to parts of both regions’ territory. A former Chechen independence fighter who fought Russian forces during ...

Dagestan, which translates as "land of the mountains", is situated in Russia's North Caucasus with Chechnya and Georgia to the west, Azerbaijan to the south and the Caspian Sea to the east. It is ...

Last month an explosion at a gas station in the neighboring region of Dagestan killed at least 13 people and injured 23 others. More about Chechnya AP Moscow Russia Dagestan ...

The downing of a drone in Dagestan comes shortly after an unprecedented drone strike against a Russian military academy in neighboring Chechnya on Oct. 29.

An Islamist insurgency which spilled over from neighbouring Chechnya to roil Dagestan in the 2000s and 2010s saw more leave a region that has long been one of Russia's poorest with high rates of ...

Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan continues to mourn loved ones and hold funerals for the dead, as questions and conspiracy theories swirl over the weekend attack that killed 20 people.

A mob in the Russian republic of Dagestan stormed runways looking for a flight carrying Jewish passengers. The episode highlighted the threat of ethnic strife in Russia.