War in Dagestan | |||||||
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Part of the spillover of the Second Chechen War, Post-Soviet conflicts | |||||||
![]() Location of the Republic of Dagestan (red) within European Russia | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
Up to 1,500–2,000 fighters in early August, more than 10,000 militants by the end of September [3] |
17,000 soldiers, thousands of policemen and volunteers | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Russian claim: 2,500 militants killed[4] |
275 servicemen killed, 15 missing and 937 wounded (per Russia)[1] Significant losses to local Dagestani police and militias[1] | ||||||
Unknown number of civilian casualties |
The 1999 war in Dagestan, also known as the Dagestan incursions[5] (Russian: Война в Дагестане), was an armed conflict that began when the Chechen-based Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (IIPB), an Islamist group led by Shamil Basayev, Ibn al-Khattab, Ramzan Akhmadov and Arbi Barayev, invaded the neighboring Russian republic of Dagestan on 7 August 1999, in support of the Shura of Dagestan separatist rebels. The war ended with a major victory for the Russian Federation and Republic of Dagestan and the retreat of the IIPB. The invasion of Dagestan alongside a series of apartment bombings in September 1999 served as the main casus belli for the Second Chechen War.