By Huseyn Aliyev
February 7, 2017, the CACI Analyst
On December 17, 2016, a shootout in central Grozny between members of the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and local security forces claimed the lives of three militants and one police officer. On December 18, a counter-terrorist operation (CTO) launched in the aftermath resulted in the death of four more insurgents, whereas four remaining members of a militant cell were arrested. Three police officers were killed and one injured.
While the confrontation between militants and police in Grozny was only the fourth conflict-related incident in the republic during 2016, it demonstrates that ISIS still has the capacity to target Chechen security forces.
- Russian Federation
- Chechnya
- Grozny
- ISIS
- Counterterrorism in the North Caucasus
- Zelimkhan Bakharchiyev
- Dagestan
- Syrian Chechens
- Syrian civil war
- Jihadism
- Orkhan Jamal
- Human Rights Analysis Center
- Chechen Ministry of Interior
- Ramzan Kadyrov