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Russia says it killed top Islamist insurgent

Russia on Tuesday said that a top Islamist rebel, deputy to the country’s most wanted militant Doku Umarov, was killed in an operation in the North Caucasus region, where Moscow is fighting a bloody insurgency. Dzhamaleil Mutaliyev, who helped organise a 2010 suicide bombing attack in the city of Vladikavkaz,…

Clashes in Russia’s mostly Muslim Caucasus kill 20

MOSCOW (Reuters) – At least 17 rebels and three law enforcement officers were killed on Monday in Russia’s mainly Muslim North Caucasus region, Russian media reported, citing the National Anti-Terror Committee. The clashes between insurgents and security forces enforcement took place in Ingushetia, a small province next to Chechnya, the site of two…