The Russian security service, the FSB, says it has arrested an Islamic State operative who was planning to murder one of the leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) on behalf of the Ukrainian authorities. The suspected terrorist was identified as Mejid Magomedov, who was born in 1988 in Russia’s southern Dagestan republic. He was arrested on Sunday in Russia’s Smolensk... 

Two people have died and a further 12 were injured after a car bombing in southern Russia’s Dagestan at a police checkpoint near the city of Derbent. Islamic State terrorists have claimed responsibility in a tweet. Preliminary reports say a Lada Priora approached the police checkpoint and the bomb was detonated. Of the 12 injured, six are police officers and the rest are civilians, TASS reports. Reports... 

Takfiri militants in four regions of Russia’s Caucasus have taken oath of allegiance to the ISIL terrorist group operating in Iraq and Syria, according to a recording recently posted online. Based on the voice recording which emerged on video sharing website YouTube on Sunday, Muslim militants in Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria regions have all pledged allegiance to ISIL leader... 

At least five police officers have been killed and another three sustained injuries in Russia’s Republic of Chechnya as they attempted to detain a suspected suicide bomber. The young man detonated improvised explosive when police attempted to search him. “According to the latest data, the blast killed five policemen, twelve others received wounds,” a police spokesman said. Four police... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to continue to fight against terrorists and destroy them following two recent bombings in the southern city of Volgograd. Putin said on Tuesday that the explosions represented inhumane attacks and warned that Moscow would “fiercely and consistently continue the fight against terrorists until their complete annihilation,” the Interfax news agency reported. The... 

A branch of Russia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a group of Muslims for the right of schoolgirls to wear traditional religious attire, specifically the hijab, in classrooms. The appeal was made by a group of citizens of Muslim faith from southern Russia’s Stavropol Region. They complained that a decree by the local administration ordering all schoolchildren to appear in classes only... 

Members of armed Chechen groups who in August 1996 took part in fighting against federal forces in Grozny. The US may be shocked that the terrorist suspects behind the Boston bombings are Chechen natives, but Russia has long cautioned Washington about giving asylum to Islamists from the North Caucasus, political analyst Dmitry Babich told RT. Two bombs exploded in Boston during the city’s Marathon... 

Tamerlan Tsarnaev lies on the ground after a gunfight ended between police and suspects from the Boston Marathon bombings, in the US city of Watertown, Massachusetts on April 19, 2013. A Boston Marathon bombings’ suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev has died in hospital after sustaining critical injuries in a car-chase and shootout with police, as authorities engage in a manhunt for a second suspect. Boston... 

Celebrating the muslim festival Eid al-Adha in Moscow The four-day Eid al-Adha religious festival is underway, with millions of Muslims traveling around the world to visit family and loved ones. The holiday is also widely celebrated across Russia. Known as Kurban Bairam in Russia, the festival marks the end of Hajj, the annual Mecca pilgrimage, and commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice... 

More than 30 people have been arrested in Moscow and St. Petersburg as ultra-nationalists staged rallies over the death of Ivan Agafonov. Agafonov, 19, died after a scuffle outside a Moscow nightclub on Aug. 13 and Dagestan-born martial arts champion Rasul Mirzayev is accused of throwing the fatal punch. That has angered right-wing groups, who are planning a wave of protests against “Caucasian lawlessness”. And... 

Police officers have killed three militants in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Police in Russia’s restive southern province of Dagestan say that seven policemen have been wounded by militants. Local police spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said that several gunmen drove to a police precinct in the town of Kizilyurt late Monday. They sprayed the building with automatic gunfire and then detonated a car bomb,... 

Russian Islamist leader Doku Umarov has claimed responsibility for the bomb attack on Moscow’s Domodedovo airport last month which killed 36 people. Mr Umarov heads the Caucasus Emirate, a shadowy terrorist group that dreams of creating an Islamic state in Russia’s north Caucasus region and operates mainly in the wild backcountry of Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia. Speaking in a video... 

Four people have been killed and three more wounded and hospitalised in the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt as a result of a car bomb explosion. An official of the Dagestani Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass on Thursday that the “incident took place on Wednesday at 22:10 MSK on the 739th kilometre of the Kavkaz federal highway at the exit from Khasavyurt.” According to the source, an unknown man parked... 

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... 

A car bomb and two police raids killed six people and wounded seven in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region on Saturday, authorities said. In the republic of Dagestan, a suicide bomber in a car tried to attack a police dormitory in the town of Khasavyurt but an armored vehicle blocked his way, a police spokesman said. The explosion killed the suspected militant and a police officer, and wounded...