Topic: Ingushetia

Twelve people have been killed in two separate violent clashes in Russia, including the regional leader of a group of Islamic fighters, according...

Gunmen attack Russian school, killing one

Three masked gunmen attacked a grammar school in southern Russia on Thursday after classes had ended, killing a soldier who was playing volleyball...
Russia announced Monday its air and ground forces had killed 17 rebels in a highly unusual precision strike on a Caucasus base used by Islamists to train suicide bombers and stage other attacks.At least three Russian servicemen were also reported killed ...

Insurgency in Russia's Caucasus a growing threat

0 . A police officer stopped at a traffic light in Dagestan's capital is gunned down from an adjacent car. A driver blows himself up at a...

Three arrested in connection with Moscow bomb-media

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The brother and sister of the alleged suicide bomber who killed 36 people at Russia's busiest airport have been arrested for helping him, along with a third accomplice, Russian media said Wednesday.Officials have said 20-year-old Magomed Yevloyev from ...

Russian airport bomber named

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A manhunt is under way for two residents of Russia's Muslim Ingushetia region who law enforcement officers believe coordinated the bombing of Moscow's Domodedovo airport two weeks ago, Interfax reported on Sunday.Unnamed officials in Russia's North ...

Battle for alcohol in Muslim Russia is deadly business

NAZRAN, Russia (Reuters) - A masked guard clad in camouflage pokes his AK-47 rifle into the shoulder of a vodka-guzzling client in a hotel bar in Russia's Muslim Ingushetia region, and orders him to leave immediately.The state-employed security guard then leads ...

In Russia's Muslim south, insurgency gains strength

NAZRAN, Russia (Reuters) - Neiba scrapes out a meager income selling soil-caked clumps of wild garlic she picks in the forests of Russia's poorest province -- an occupation a growing Islamic insurgency has made increasingly hazardous."I will only go to the forest ...

Yunus Bek Yevkurov

President Yunus Bek Yevkurov of Ingushetia, a Muslim region of Russia, was injured on June 22, 2009, in a suicide bomb attack. As President...

Yunus Bek Yevkurov

President Yunus Bek Yevkurov of Ingushetia , a Muslim region of Russia , was injured on June 22 , 2009 , in a suicide bomb attack. Ingushetia is the home of hundreds of refugees from Chechnya and is a very poor region.