Accuracy in Media

WASHINGTON — In the contentious North Caucasus region of Dagestan, a suicide bomber killed two people and injured up to 20 people outside a police station. Reuters reported that the Dagestan Interior Ministry announced the casualties, which also included six police officers and one of which was in critical condition. The culprit detonated a car […]

WASHINGTON — It seems that Russia’s increased security efforts to stabilize the troubled Caucasus region is working, until a top security official was gunned down in the region of Ingushetia. Reuters reports that local police blamed Islamist militants and rebels operating in the Muslim-populated region and killed top official Ahmed Kotiyev and his driver. Kotiyev […]

WASHINGTON — The Russian police tailed and killed nine suspected Islamist militants in the volatile Caucasus region. Reuters reports that a leader of a group, which killed a local imam (or Muslim cleric) recently, was also killed in this counterterrorism action. Russian security forces have killed several leaders of the Islamist insurgency, including the right-hand […]

WASHINGTON — The surviving Boston Bomber, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, is now undergoing formal American trial. Reuters reports that the younger Tsarnaev was indicted on 30 charges and 4 murders, but it still will not heal all wounds left in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, masterminded and executed a […]

WASHINGTON — In preparation to host the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia is hunting Islamist insurgents with renewed vigor and focus. Reuters reports that Russia said it killed the right-hand man of their most-wanted insurgent, Dzhamaleil Mutaliyev. Mutaliyev is a trusted aide of the lead insurgent Doku Umarov and was killed in a shootout […]