[RFE/RL] Officials in Kyrgyzstan say security forces have killed two militant suspects in a gunbattle in the northern Chui region. The State Committee for National Security (UKMK) said the exchange of gunfire occurred in the Jaiyl district on August 29.According to the UKMK, security forces opened fire after three suspected members of a terrorist group who were holed up in a house refused to surrender. It said two of the suspects were killed and the third one was wounded and captured.
Authorities began searching for the suspects on August 24 after two men threatened a police patrol with a gun and grenade in the capital, Bishkek. the UKMK said a fourth member of the same group was detained in Bishkek and that investigators found a gun and ammunition in the suspect's home.
Attackers Stab Policeman to Death in Russia's Dagestan
[AnNahar] Two attackers stabbed one policeman to death and maimed another in 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...
in Russia's North Caucasus on Monday before being shot by police, Sherlocks said.
The attackers used knives in the assault before being "neutralized" by police at a petrol station in the town of Kaspiisk, the regional Investigative Committee said.
A news hound at the scene for state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Rossiya 24 said it appeared to be "an attempt to repeat" recent stabbings in western Europe claimed by 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, but could not confirm the Dagestan incident was a terrorist attack.
IS has claimed a number of attacks on police in Dagestan in the last couple of years that have involved guns and explosives.
The Rossiya 24 news hound quoted law enforcement sources as saying that one of the attackers had a black jihadist banner in his rucksack.
An unidentified source also told the state TASS news agency that Sherlocks found two knives and items with the IS logo.
The regional health ministry spokeswoman said the injured policeman also suffered gunshot wounds. But his life was not at risk, TASS reported.
An investigation has been opened over the policeman's murder, which carries a maximum penalty of life in jail, the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
Salafist tough guys from Dagestan, which lies immediately east of Chechnya, are known to have traveled to join IS. In 2015, the group declared it had established a "franchise" in the North Caucasus.