Moscow – AFP- Jan. 1, 2016 – The Islamic State group has claimed it was behind a deadly shooting at an ancient citadel in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan, an area increasingly becoming a hotbed of extremism.
Tuesday night’s attack near the historic citadel of Derbent, which left one person dead and 11 injured, is the second claimed by IS in the Russian Caucasus since September, according to local news portal Caucasian Knot.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said earlier this month that nearly 2,900 Russians are fighting or have fought with the jihadists in Iraq and Syria.