Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus

The Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus refers to the involvement of ISIS and its affiliates in the region, where local militant groups pledged allegiance to the organization and engaged in attacks aimed at destabilizing Russia's North Caucasus republics, Georgia, and Azerbaijan to create an Islamic Caliphate. == History == === 2015-2017 === From 2015, during the Insurgency in the North Caucasus, after the series of killings of leaders of the Caucasus Emirate by the Russian army between 2013 and 2014, they led to the weakening of the terrorist organization, leaving several members of IS, veterans of the Syrian Civil War and the Civil War in Iraq, founded a Province of IS in the North Caucasus.

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