The Russian Defense Ministry is training to directly manage local authorities, law enforcement and state security as tensions with the U.S. raise the risk of nuclear war. Russian Army units, along with the Air Force, Airborne troops, and the Northern Fleet, conducted a large-scale snap exercise earlier this year to test combat readiness. During the drill, the Russian Defense Ministry practiced assuming... 

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... 

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... 

Another Terrorist Attack Strikes Russia A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in a car near a police station in Russia’s southern Dagestan region, killing two officers. The bomber blew up in a hijacked Lada Priora car upon entry into Dagestan’s Kazbek region, the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General’s Office said on its website today. Five police officers and 12 civilians... 

New Terroist Act in Russia! Two suicide bombers including one impersonating a police officer killed 12 people in southern Russia on Wednesday, two days after deadly suicide bombings blamed on the region’s militants tore through the Moscow subway system. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday’s blasts in the province of Dagestan may have been organized by the same militants who attacked... 

* Two bombs, 40mins apart, detonated during morning rush hour * At least 37 people dead, 65 injured * Chechen Muslims claimed responsibility. Rouble falls Two female suicide bombers killed at least 37 people and injured 65 by targeting two packed Moscow tube trains during the busy rush hour today. President Dmitry Medvedev declared Russia would act ‘without compromise’ to root out terrorists... 

Police officers and investigators at the site of the explosion on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. People, police officers and investigators seen at the site of an explosion at the traffic police station on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s Dagestan region, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. A suicide bomber blew up an explosives-packed car at the police station...