A house destroyed by security services in Dagestan. CRISIS GROUP/Varvara Pakhomenko Report 238 / Europe & Central Asia 16 March 2016 The North Caucasus Insurgency and Syria: An Exported Jihad? Russia’s North Caucasus insurgency has gone relatively quiet, as Moscow crushed militants and many left to fight in Syria and Iraq. But longstanding grievances remain and the war may only have widened, as evidenced by the bombing of a Russian airliner in Egypt and the emergence of new groups swearing allegiance to the Islamic State in Russia itself. Share Facebook Twitter Email Linkedin Whatsapp Save Print Download PDF Full Report Also available in 简体中文 简体中文 Русский English