2024 Karabulak clash

2024 Karabulak clash
Part of the Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus
File:Karabulak verevka.png Bed sheets tied together, along which the militants tried to escape.
Date 2–3 March 2024 Location Karabulak, Ingushetia, Russia Result Russian victory
Belligerents
Russia	Islamic State – Caucasus Province (Russian claim)
Units involved
Federal Security Service Police of Russia	Ingush militant cell
Casualties and losses
3 police officers wounded (allegedly)	5–6 militants killed 1 civilian killed (allegedly)

The 2024 Karabulak clash was a deadly stand-off between Russian security services and a cell of Ingush militants, claimed by Russian authorities to be affiliated with Islamic State – Caucasus Province. The incident was the most significant clash in years regarding the Islamic insurgencies in the North Caucasus.

Timeline

A cell of six militants, of whom half were wanted by Russian authorities for a previous attack in 2022, barricaded themselves in a third-floor apartment, engaging in a lengthy firefight with Russian special forces. Small-arms fire and explosives were exchanged between government and militant forces for hours continuously. A counter-terrorism operation regime was declared in Karabulak, and the surrounding streets were consequently blocked off, as residents of the apartment complex were evacuated to a nearby school. By noon of 3 March, TASS reported that the firefight was effectively over and that the militants were all killed, though Russian independent sources claimed that government forces also sustained casualties, and a bystander was killed.

See also

• 2014 Karlanyurt clash