A road tunnel that was closed in September for a security operation targeting suspected militants in Russia's Daghestan region was reopened on September 1.
The 22-year-old man had pleaded guilty to being in Syria, but said he had gone there to protect Circassian women and children. Syria has had an ethnic Circassian community since the early 1860s, when the Russian-Circassian war of 1864 forced them to migrate from their homeland.
Complaints by displaced residents have prompted Russian authorities to assess damage inflicted by military and security forces during an operation targeting suspected militants in the North Caucasus region of Daghestan.
A court in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria is set to open proceedings on November 24 against a 22-year-old man accused of fighting with militant groups in Syria.
The brother of Ramzan Tsitsulayev, Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov's personal plenipotentiary in Ukraine, and two of Tsitsulayev's bodyguards have been remanded in pretrial detention in Moscow after a fistfight last week with plainclothes police.
Officials in Russia's volatile North Caucasus Republic of Daghestan say local police have killed two suspected militants.
Not all Daghestanis share that perception of republican head Ramazan Abdulatipov's efficiency, despite an opinion poll conducted last month by an influential Russian think tank.
Amid reports that Kurdish militia fighters in Kobani are making gains against Islamic State (IS) forces, a Chechen militant fighting in the northern Syrian city has issued a plea for support and prayer from IS supporters.
The Kremlin-backed head of Russia's Chechnya region says authorties in Germany have allowed two racehorses he keeps there to receive prize money despite Western sanctions against him.
Russian authorities say four alleged militants have been killed and two police officers wounded in a gunbattle in the North Caucasus province of Chechnya.
Over the past 24 hours, a strange story has emerged regarding the Islamic State group's apparent refusal to agree to a temporary cease-fire with the major Syrian Islamist rebel factions with which it has been battling for months.
The head of Russia's Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, says one of the leaders of the Islamic State, Tarkhan Batirashvili, was killed.
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