ISIS: a Threat to the Greater Caucasus
... (Ingushetia and North Ossetia) as well as the United Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay are united in this decision, and they have neither religious nor political disagreements [20] . Thus, by the end of 2014, a number of rebel warlords in the North Caucasus pledged loyalty to the Islamic State and not to the Caucasus Emirate. The North Caucasus sabotage and terrorist underground did face splits before (in 2010, Doku Umarov broke with some warlords of Chechnya). However, these splits took place inside the region and occurred without ...
09.11.2015
