In the rugged highlands of southern Russia, nestled between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, lies a republic that's become synonymous with combat exc ...

On August 5, 2025, in Dagestan, Russia, a video captures an incident involving a fuel truck and a traffic police inspector.

EADaily, . A 19-year—old follower of pro-Turkish "preachers" who persuaded him to commit a terrorist attack according to the ...

Dagestan’s small vibrant Jewish community goes back centuries. Its synagogue in Derbent was also set ablaze and gutted by flames. There were no worshippers there at the time. The hunt and the hunted ...

Russia's southern region of Dagestan is in mourning after a rampage by Islamic militants Sunday that killed 19 people, and attacked houses of worship in apparently coordinated assaults in two cities.

In Dagestan, Russian security forces fought an Islamist insurgency in the mountainous region in the 2000s that spilled over from neighboring Chechnya, though attacks have become rarer in recent years.

Dagestan’s violent history means the area has a heavy security presence, said Mark Youngman, the founder of Threatologist, which analyzes Eurasian security risks and specializes in the North ...

One with 60,000 followers, Morning Dagestan (Utro Dagestan), was fervently anti-Kremlin and supported regional separatism, and had promoted hate and unrest in the past, including antisemitic posts.

The Dagestan government blamed pro-Ukrainian conspirators for the clashes at the airport, saying that they had inflamed the public to fuel unrest in Russia.

An angry crowd in Russia’s mostly Muslim region of Dagestan stormed an airport where a flight from Israel arrived on Sunday, forcing authorities to close the facility and divert flights.

Tsarnaev's Six-Month Visit to Dagestan Is Scrutinized By Alan Cullison in Makhachkala, Russia, and Paul Sonne and Lukas I. Alpert in Moscow Updated April 24, 2013 5:26 pm ET ...