Earlier this month, Rustam Asilderov, a senior jihadist in Dagestan, released a video in which he pledged allegiance (bayat) to the head of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. Asild...
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A charity known as İMKANDER has praised Doku Umarov, the former emir of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate ...
Next month’s Olympic Games in Sochi have generated a great deal of anxiety about the possibility of terrorist attacks. Sochi is the most dangerous Olympics we have seen in terms of...
Two bombings have rocked the southern Russian city of Volgograd in as many days, just weeks ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Sunday’s attack on the...
A female suicide bomber carried out an attack in the southern Russian city of Volgograd on Monday, killing 6 and injuring 33 civilians on...
Vilayat Dagestan, a jihadist group that is part of the Caucasus Emirate, an al Qaeda-linked group operating in the North Caucas...
A commander from the Russian Caucasus known as Abu Omar al Chechen has formed Jaish al-Muhajireen wa Ansar, or Army of the Emigrants and Helpers, and integrated several Syrian fighting units into...
A commander from the Russian Caucasus known as Abu Omar al Chechen is a key leader in the Muhajireen Brigade, a jihadist group that fights alongside the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Leva...
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that is fighting Bashir al Assad's regime in Syria, has claimed credit for yet another suicide attack as w...
The US State department has added seven senior leaders of Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, to the...
The Iran-al Qaeda alliance.
Successes and setbacks.
Doku Umarov, the leader of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate, al Qaeda's affiliate in the Caucasus, from a videotape in which he took credit for the March 29 suicide attacks on the...
Emir Magas. Image from Kavkaz Center. Russian security forces dealt a double blow to the al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate during operations in the southern Russian republics...