Russia's National Guard, established last year, is a new branch of internal troops aimed at defending borders and countering extremism.
It is subordinate directly to President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...and has bases in the country's volatile North Caucasus regions including Chechnya.
In a statement, the National Guard said the rebels tried to storm their base in heavy fog at around 2:30 am local time (Thursday 2330 GMT) but were spotted by a group of soldiers who opened fire.
"Six of the attackers were destroyed," the statement said. "During the armed combat, six military were killed and there are maimed."
None of the Lions of Islam managed to enter the base, the National Guard said.
Counter-terrorism troops, Sherlocks and explosives experts from the security forces are at the scene, it said.
Chechnya was the scene of two separatist wars in the 1990s and early 2000s, but the region has been largely pacified under the iron-fisted rule of strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
Two National Guard soldiers were killed in a Chechen village in January during a joint operation with police and special forces in which four suspected holy warriors were also killed.
The Russian North Caucasus is one of the major sources of foreign jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq.
In January Kadyrov said his forces had detained more than 50 Lions of Islam linked to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadist group in a security operation.
Islamic State group claims Chechnya attack: SITE
[AlAhram] The Islamic State (IS) hard boy group grabbed credit for an attack Friday on a Russian military base in Chechnya, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors Islamist hard boy communications.
Six attackers stormed "a military base of the Russian National Guard close to Naurskaya village in northwestern Grozny in Chechnya," the IS statement said. "They clashed with those at the base with light weapons for several hours."
The statement said all of the assailants died during the attack, which killed six Russian soldiers.