2024 Karabulak clash

2024 Karabulak clash
Part of the Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus
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