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Caucasus Emirate

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2017 · a Caucasus Emirate spokesman called for militants in Chechnya to target Russian infrastructure and military facilities. In April 2020 · and suicide bombings. Since November 2014 · improvised explosive devices · many of the network's leaders have switched their allegiance to the Islamic State. On February 22 · Russian authorities arrested three suspected members of Caucasus Emirate who had plotted an attack at a retail shopping facility in the Khanty-Mansiysk City of Lyantor in Siberia. According to a Russian news agency · targeted assassinations using snipers · The Caucasus Emirate is a Sunni Salafist Islamist extremist network which formed in October 2007. Its goal is to overthrow the secular governments in the North Caucasus republics and establish an Islamic emirate governed under the Salafist interpretation of Sharia Law. The Caucasus Emirate has carried out terrorist activities in Russia and the North Caucasus republics that range from ambushes with small arms · the suspects were in possession of an improvised explosive device · weapons and ammunition. The Caucasus Emirate’s operational presence in North Caucasus has been in steady decline since the mid-2010s. This decline has been attributed to the Russian security services’ counterterrorism efforts · which included many senior Caucasus Emirate leaders being captured and killed.

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CA_LISTED_TERRORISTS CA-LISTED-TERR Canada Listed Terrorist Entities Counter-terrorism 24/12/2013 source ↗

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