Gunmen opened fire on two synagogues, two Orthodox churches and a police post in Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened ...

Sergey Melikov, head of the Dagestan Republic, said at least six “militants” were also killed following the attacks on churches, synagogues and police posts in the cities of Derbent and the ...

Sunday's violence in Dagestan's regional capital of Makhachkala and nearby Derbent was the latest that officials blamed on Islamic extremists in the predominantly Muslim region in the North ...

Three days of mourning have been declared in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan following an attack by gunmen on a church, synagogue and police post. The death toll from the attacks in ...

At least 25 people were injured in the two attacks, Russian officials said. The attack in Derbent, a city on the Caspian Sea, unfolded around 6 p.m. local time, when multiple gunmen unleashed a ...

DERBENT, Russia, Nov 2 (Reuters) - There were few visitors to Derbent's sprawling Jewish cemetery in Russian's Muslim-majority Dagestan region on Thursday, but some of those laying flowers on ...

The attacks coincided with the Orthodox Christian holiday of Pentecost, with the gunmen setting fire to an icon in Makhachkala and killing an elderly priest in Derbent. Dagestan’s small vibrant ...

The radicals that attacked churches and synagogues in Derbent and Makhachkala sought to destroy the unity between Russians of different faiths, said Rabbi Berel Lazar. Russia's chief rabbi Berel ...