North Caucasus

Last night, over 15 police officers were killed in a series of attacks in Dagestan, a southern Russian region, according to reports from Russian news agencies. The attacks, which also caused civilian casualties, occurred simultaneously in two cities on June 23. Gunmen targeted a synagogue, an Orthodox church, and a police post.

More than 19 police officers and several civilians, including an Orthodox priest, were killed by armed militants in Russia's southern republic of Dagestan on Sunday, its governor Sergei Melikov said in a video statement early Monday.

The gunmen opened fire on two Orthodox churches, a synagogue and a police post in two cities, according to the authorities.

A massive explosion at a gas station in Russia's southern republic of Dagestan killed 27 people and injured more than 100, local officials said Tuesday.

Three of those killed were children, Dagestan's governor Sergei Melikov said.

“Caucasus 2020” is currently underway during which some of the state-of-the-art Russian weapons, such as the S-400 system, are being tested

Serbian was murdered, and a Bulgarian - seriously injured in a fight with Afghans and Chechens in Vienna last night, the Austrian national news agency APA reported.

The fight was last night near the entrance to a metro station in Ottakring district in the capital of Austria.

The Russian intervention in Syria has been, by most accounts, a success. And Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to do everything he can to keep it that way.

Several NGOs on Wednesday protested in front of the Russian embassy in Belgrade over "the persecution of gay people in Chechnya."

Montenegro opposition leaders on Wednesday presented the investment potential of their small Adriatic country at a meeting in Grozny with the speaker of the Chechen parliament, Magomed Daudov.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said its suicide bomber had blown up a car in Russia's volatile Dagestan that killed two policemen on Feb. 15, the deadliest attack in the southern republic since 2013.

A gunman opened fire on a group of tourists visiting a historic fortress in Dagestan in southern Russia on Dec. 29 evening, killing one and injuring eleven, an official in the region's health ministry said on Dec. 30.