Guide: The Caucasus Emirate
The Caucasus Emirate (Imarat Kavkaz) was the main insurgent group operating in the North Caucasus between 2007 and 2015. However, the deaths of key ideologues, intense pressure from the security[…]
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Explainer: The Chechen Conflict
Although violence has declined significantly in recent years, foreign fighters and ideologues continue to reference “jihad” in Chechnya and many Russian-speaking fighters in Syria have previous experience of the North[…]
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Broader, vaguer, weaker: The evolving ideology of the Caucasus Emirate leadership
Journal abstract In October 2007, veteran Chechen field commander Dokka Umarov proclaimed the formation of the Caucasus Emirate (IK), formalising the victory of the North Caucasus insurgency’s Islamist wing over[…]
Between Caucasus and caliphate: the splintering of the North Caucasus insurgency
Journal abstract In December 2014, several high-ranking field commanders from the Caucasus Emirate (Imarat Kavkaz, IK), an insurgent and designated terrorist group in Russia’s North Caucasus, pledged allegiance to the[…]
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