On Sunday April 19th Russian security forces inflicted a fatal blow to the Caucasus Emirate by eliminating the organization’s leader Aliaskhab Kebekov, also known as “Ali Abu Muhammad al-Daghestani”, Shamil Hasanov Balakhani, leader of the Untsukul Jamaat and Omar Magomedov. Security forces, coordinated by the FSB and the Ministry of Interior, surrounded the group inside a house... 

A terrorist attack in the Russian city of Volgograd has killed at least 14 passengers on a trolley bus. The explosion comes a day after a suicide bombing in the city which killed 17 people and injured scores of others. Health officials reported 14 fatalities in Monday morning’s blast, two of whom died in hospital from the wounds they sustained. 41 survived the blast, with 27 being treated in hospital,... 

Moscow’s Domodedovo airport – the busiest in the Russian capital – has been rocked by an explosion that has reportedly killed 31 people. Suspicion has fallen on the “Caucasus Emirate”, an Islamist separatist movement in Chechnya. More than 100 more are thought to have been injured in the blast, which reports suggest may have been the work of a suicide bomber. Russia’s chief...