Discover how Dagestan became the world’s top producer of elite wrestlers and UFC champions. From ancient warrior culture to ...

On August 5, 2025, in Dagestan, Russia, a video captures an incident involving a fuel truck and a traffic police inspector.

Dagestan’s small vibrant Jewish community goes back centuries. Its synagogue in Derbent was also set ablaze and gutted by flames. There were no worshippers there at the time. The hunt and the hunted ...

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Russia's southern region of Dagestan is in mourning after a rampage by Islamic militants Sunday that killed 19 people, and attacked houses of worship in apparently coordinated assaults in two cities.

Dagestan’s violent history means the area has a heavy security presence, said Mark Youngman, the founder of Threatologist, which analyzes Eurasian security risks and specializes in the North ...

In Dagestan, Russian security forces fought an Islamist insurgency in the mountainous region in the 2000s that spilled over from neighboring Chechnya, though attacks have become rarer in recent years.

The Dagestan government blamed pro-Ukrainian conspirators for the clashes at the airport, saying that they had inflamed the public to fuel unrest in Russia.

One with 60,000 followers, Morning Dagestan (Utro Dagestan), was fervently anti-Kremlin and supported regional separatism, and had promoted hate and unrest in the past, including antisemitic posts.

Images of antisemitic rioters overrunning an airport in Dagestan’s Makhachkala Uytash Airport have shaken Russia’s Jewish community, stoked international outrage and raised serious questions ...

An angry crowd in Russia’s mostly Muslim region of Dagestan stormed an airport where a flight from Israel arrived on Sunday, forcing authorities to close the facility and divert flights.

Tsarnaev's Six-Month Visit to Dagestan Is Scrutinized By Alan Cullison in Makhachkala, Russia, and Paul Sonne and Lukas I. Alpert in Moscow Updated April 24, 2013 5:26 pm ET ...