According to sources in the Wilayah of Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia) of the Caucasus Emirate, 9 Muharram 1429 late in the evening (17 January 2008), around 10:10 pm local time, a fierce firefight with the use of assault rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers erupted in downtown Nazran.

The war in Afghanistan is only just beginning as NATO occupation forces, far from winning the Taliban, are entering a widening and deepening conflict they may well lose, NGO said on Saturday.

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Friday evening, 11 Muharram 1429 (18.01.2008), an armored car of a Russian special police unit was attacked by gunfire in the village of Hasanya on the outskirts of Nalchik. Several bullets hit the vehicle, but according to Russian media, there were no casualties among the police.

According to Kavkaz-Center’s sources in the Wilayah of Dagestan, around 11 AM Sunday Russian invaders and their local collaborators attempted to storm a house in the center of the town of Temir Khan Shura (previously known as Buynaksk). The Russian terrorists used armored vehicles. The gunbattle raged for 2 hours.

Attackers fired several rocket propelled grenades at a house in the village of Yandare in the Wilayah of Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia), Saturday night at 11:10 PM, 12 Muharram 1429 (19.01.2008).

According to Russian media, Saturday morning kuffar from police closed the border with Chechnya in Dagestan’s Novolak district, explaining it by a “special operation” in the nearby village of Baytarki in Nozhay-Yurt district of Chechnya.

According to KC’s source in the command of the Armed Forces of the Caucasus Emirate, 9 Muḥarram 1429 in the afternoon (17 January 2008), a spetsnaz (special force) team of invaders was attacked in the Vedeno gorge in the Wilayah of Nokhchicho (Ichkeria).

Russia’s Muslims are beginning to change the way they talk about the relationship between their religious community and their country, a shift that reflects their own growing self-confidence but one that frightens many ethnic Russians who see it as a threat to their own status.

The Russian Far East is “drifting away” from the rest of the country, according to an investigation carried out by Nezavisimaya gazeta – Regiony, and the Kremlin’s much-ballyhooed program intended to reverse that process may in fact be making it worse.