| 2024 Karabulak clash | |||||||
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| Part of theIslamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus | |||||||
 Bed sheets tied together, along which the militants tried to escape. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Russia |  Islamic State[1] | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 3 police officers wounded (allegedly)[2] | 6 militants killed[2] 1 civilian killed (allegedly)[1][2] | ||||||
The2024 Karabulak clash was a deadly stand-off between Russian security services and a cell ofIngush militants affiliated withIslamic State – Caucasus Province.[1][3] The incident was the most significant clash in years regarding the Islamic insurgencies in the North Caucasus.
A cell of six militants, of whom half were wanted by Russian authorities for a previous attack in 2022,[1] barricaded themselves in a third-floor apartment, engaging in a lengthy firefight with Russian special forces.[4] Small-arms fire and explosives were exchanged between government and militant forces for hours continuously. A counter-terrorism operation regime was declared inKarabulak,[5] and the surrounding streets were consequently blocked off, as residents of the apartment complex were evacuated to a nearby school.[1]
By noon of 3 March,TASS reported that the firefight was effectively over and that the militants were all killed,[4] though Russian independent sources claimed that government forces also sustained casualties, and a bystander was killed.[1][2]
