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Russia has been subject to major terrorist attacks starting from a series of explosions that hit Moscow apartment blocks in 1999, followed by the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002, the Beslan school siege in 2004 and the Domodedovo International Airport bombing in 2011.
War against the Islamic State; Part of the War on terror, the Second Libyan Civil War, the War in Iraq (2013–2017), the Syrian civil war and its spillover, the Sinai insurgency, the Boko Haram insurgency, the insurgency in the North Caucasus, the Moro conflict, the insurgency in Cabo Delgado, the Qandala campaign and the Sahel War
In March 2024, an attack at a Moscow concert hall killed 145 people; the following month, Russia's FSB security service arrested four people in Dagestan suspected of involvement in the attack. [31] This was the deadliest attack in Russia since the Beslan school siege in 2004, and was claimed by the Islamic State. [32] [24]
The US warned Moscow that ISIS militants were determined to target Russia in the days before assailants stormed the Crocus City Hall in an attack that killed scores of people, but President ...
ISIS-K has a history of attacks, including against mosques, inside and outside Afghanistan. Earlier this year, the U.S. intercepted communications confirming the group carried out twin bombings in ...
In 2016, ISIS had plotted to target St. Petersburg due to Russia's military involvement in Syria, resulting in arrests. [53] No public transport system in Russia had been bombed since the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings. [54] ISIS propaganda was being circulated prior to this incident. It encouraged supporters to launch strikes on Moscow.
On 17 November 2015, in the wake of the Russian jet crash over Sinai [235] [236] and the Paris attacks, according to the Russian defence minister's public report to the president of Russia Vladimir Putin, Russia employed the Russia-based Tu-160, Tu-95MSM, and Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bombers firing air-launched cruise missiles to hit what ...
The 2020 Kafr Takharim airstrike occurred on 26 October 2020 when the Russian Air Force targeted a training camp run by Faylaq al-Sham, a major Islamist Syrian rebel group backed by Turkey, near the town of Kafr Takharim located around 10 kilometers from the Turkish border. [4]