MOSCOW (AP) — A group of militants attacked a police checkpoint in Russia’s North Caucasus region, killing two officers, officials said Monday. Four other officers were wounded and all five attackers were killed in the shootout in the Karachay-Cherkessia region late Sunday, according to the regional branch of Russia’s Interior Ministry. The Investigative Committee, the […]
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Alleged IS militants in Russia’s North Caucasus were killed in a shootout with security services
Six alleged members of the Islamic State group were killed in a shootout in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region, in what the country’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) described Sunday as a “counterterrorism operation.” According to a statement by the NAC, late on Saturday the six men barricaded themselves in a third-floor apartment in Karabulak, a […]