By Emil Aslan Souleimanov
October 6th, 2016, The CACI Analyst
The North Caucasus insurgency has weakened dramatically in recent years. While Chechnya-based jihadist groups now number a few dozen fighters, jamaats operating in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay have been nearly wrecked. In Ingushetia, a few insurgent groups remain numbering a couple of dozen members. In Dagestan, the epicenter of the regional insurgents, several jamaats have survived and number around a hundred active members. Indicative of the unprecedented weakening of the North Caucasus insurgency is the jihadists’ inability to elect an amir of the Caucasus Emirate: since the liquidation of the last amir Magomed Suleimanov in mid-August 2015, the jihadist resistance has been beheaded as it lacks a formal leadership. Yet has the regional insurgency indeed been defeated?
- Russia
- North Caucasus
- Chechnya
- Dagestan
- Caucasus Emirate
- Jihadism
- Winter Olympic Games Sochi 2014
- Kadyrovtsy
- Forced disappearances
- Syria
- Middle East
- ISIS
- Russian Special Rapid Response Units
- Russian Special Purpose Mobility Units OMON
- Aliaskhab Kebekov
- Ingushetia
- Magomed Suleimanov