| Submit your comments on this article |
| Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia |
| Islamic State goes on recruitment spree in Russia |
| 2015-10-31 |
| [IsraelTimes] Hundreds of fighters from Dagestan have joined jihadist ranks; local poverty and unemployment in Muslim region are partly to blame The Russian province of Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republiccurrently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... , a flashpoint for Islamic violence in the North Caucasus, is feeding hundreds of fighters to the Islamic State |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Hundreds of fighters from Dagestan have joined jihadist ranks; local poverty and unemployment in Muslim region are partly to blame Someone pick up the WH talking points, "They just need jobs"? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-10-31 09:42 |
| #1 International rights groups have accused him of using extrajudicial killings, abductions and torture to uproot the Islamist insurgency in the region. Just admiring the sentence. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-10-31 03:41 |