Officials: 7 killed in attacks, battles in Russia's North Caucasus, suicide bombing injures 3September 12th, 2009 Russia: Officials say 7 die in Caucasus violenceGROZNY, Russia — Russian authorities say seven people have been killed in attacks and gunbattles in the North Caucasus region, most of them alleged militants. Officials say one of the dead Saturday was the second suicide bomber to strike the region in less than 24 hours.
Russian security forces kill four militantsSeptember 12th, 2009 MAKHACHKALA - Four militants were killed Saturday in a counter-terrorist operation on the outskirts of Makhachkala, the capital of Russias North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a police spokesman said. According to the official, the militants were suspected of involvement in Fridays murder of a deputy prosecutor in Makhachkala, as well as an attack on police in the city of Kizilyurt.
Suicide bombings, slayings and clashes kill 7 in Russia's volatile North Caucasus regionSeptember 12th, 2009 Russian officials: 7 die in Caucasus violenceGROZNY, Russia — Militant attacks and gunbattles across Russia's violence-plagued North Caucasus left seven people dead Saturday, including the second suicide bomber to strike in less than 24 hours, law enforcement and emergency officials said. The bomber blew himself up after approaching police on patrol near a school in Grozny, the capital of the war-scarred Chechnya province, said Marat Prokopenkov, a spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry in southern Russia.
Police station in Russia's Ingushetia province hit by explosion, number of casualties unknownAugust 17th, 2009 Police station in southern Russia hit by explosionROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — The Interior Ministry says that a police station in the province of Ingushetia in Russia's restive North Caucasus has been hit by an explosion, and there appeared to be casualties. Madina Khadziyeva of the Interior Ministry's regional branch in Ingushetia says an explosive device was placed next to the local police headquarters in the city of Nazran.
2 police killed in North Caucusus shootings amid rise in regional violenceAugust 15th, 2009 2 police officers killed in Dagestan shootingsMAKHACHKALA, Russia — Two policemen were killed in separate sniper attacks in Russia's violent republic of Dagestan on Saturday, authorities said, the latest in three days of bloodshed that has claimed more than 20 lives in the North Caucasus. The first of the shootings took place late Saturday morning at a police post near the central square of Dagestan's capital, Makhachkala, the local Interior Ministry said.
4 police, 2 militants killed in Grozny gun battle; police hunt prostitute-killers in DagestanAugust 14th, 2009 4 police, 2 militants die in Chechnya gun battleROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — At least four policemen and two militants died in a gun battle Friday during a security sweep near the Chechen capital, Grozny, amid surging violence in Russia's North Caucasus that has claimed more than 20 lives in two days. Police conducted house-to-house searches in Dagestan, Chechnya's eastern neighbor, for a gang that shot to death seven prostitutes in a bathhouse and four police officers at a road checkpoint Thursday.
Militants kill 4 police officers, 7 civilians in Russia's volatile Caucasus provinceAugust 13th, 2009 4 policemen, 7 civilians shot dead in south RussiaMAKHACHKALA, Russia — Gunmen shot and killed four police officers and seven civilians in a restive Russian province near Chechnya on Thursday, officials said. The attackers drove to a police checkpoint in the city of Buinaksk in the province of Dagestan and sprayed it with automatic gunfire, killing four officers on the spot, said Mark Tolchinsky, a spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry's branch in Dagestan.
Minister shot dead in Russia's IngushetiaAugust 12th, 2009 Rostov-on-DON - Ingushetia's construction minister was gunned down in his office Wednesday, an interior ministry official in Russia's volatile southern republic said. "Unknown gunmen fired at Ruslan Amerkhanov (the construction minister) at about 10.35 a.m.
An overview of shootings at Freeport's operations in IndonesiaJuly 15th, 2009 A list of shootings at Freeport's Indonesian mineThe road to Freeport's gold mine in Indonesia's militarized Papua province has been the site of many deadly shootings since it opened four decades ago during the Suharto dictatorship. An overview based on information provided by the police, military and Freeport:
— August 2002: An ambush on a convoy carrying schoolteachers to the Grasberg mining complex kills two Americans and an Indonesian.
Violent clashes in Russia's south kill 5 insurgents, 2 policeJuly 13th, 2009 5 militants, 2 police killed in Russian southROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — Five suspected militants and two law enforcement officers were killed Monday in separate attacks in Russia's violence-prone south, authorities said. The militants were killed in two separate gunbattles in Chechnya, while Interior Ministry troops in Dagestan died in an ambush by insurgents, police said.
Group with ties to Chechen warlords claims responsibility for suicide bombing that killed 3June 28th, 2009 More clashes in Russia's North Caucasus kill 5MOSCOW — A Chechen terrorist group with ties to the late warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing attack on a North Caucasus regional leader that killed three, according to a statement posted on a rebel-linked Web site Sunday. The group, which calls itself the Riyadus Salikhin Martyrs' Brigade, said it staged last week's attack on the president of the North Caucasus region of Ingushetia because of his support for Kremlin policies and because of his role in the second war in Chechnya that began in 1999.
6 killed, 5 wounded in new attacks in Russia's North CaucasusJune 24th, 2009 6 killed, 5 wounded in Russia's North CaucasusMAGAS, Russia — Roadside bombs and gunfire killed six people and wounded five in Russia's North Caucasus region, officials said Wednesday, as a provincial leader remained in critical condition from an earlier suicide attack. The president of the province of Ingushetia, Yunus Bek Yevkurov, has been kept on an artificial respirator in a Moscow clinic since he was wounded in a suicide bombing Monday, but his life was not in immediate danger, said his spokesman, Kaloi Akhilgov.
Gunmen kill former government minister in Russia's North CaucasusJune 13th, 2009 Former gov't official killed in IngushetiaNAZRAN, Russia — Officials say gunmen have killed a former top government minister in the violence-plagued Russian region of Ingushetia. Bashir Aushev's killing was the latest in a string of assassinations that have highlighted the North Caucasus' turmoil.
Gunmen kill former vice premier in Russia's North Caucasus, its latest assassinationJune 13th, 2009 Former official killed in Russia's North CaucasusNAZRAN, Russia — Gunmen killed a former top government minister in Ingushetia as he stood outside his home in the violent southern Russian region Saturday, law enforcement officials said. Bashir Aushev's killing was the latest in a string of assassinations — and the second to hit Ingushetia this week — to highlight North Caucasus' continuing turmoil.
Gunmen assassinate top judge, wound 3 in troubled Russian regionJune 10th, 2009 Gunmen assassinate top judge in Russian regionNAZRAN, Russia — Officials say a top judge in Russia's violent North Caucasus was killed by gunmen who attacked her as she was dropping her children off at school. Ingushetia's Interior Ministry says Aza Gazgireeva died at a hospital in the regional center, Nazran, hours later.
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