The possibility that Sayfullo Saipov was radicalized in Uzbekistan should surprise no one.

This series takes a country-by-country look at the geopolitical competition between China and Russia in Central Asia.

Russia’s three-pronged anti-terrorism strategy seems to be bearing fruit just as the threat of Syria-based terrorists is growing.

Diego Solis recounts stories and lessons learned in his travels through the hinterlands of the Russian Caucasus.

A budgetary crisis in Moscow risks reigniting long-dormant insurgencies across the North Caucasus.

In a move echoing the administrative and social media focus of Islamic State, the new leader of CE has called on fighters to engage in conflict on a political, economic, and informational front - not just a military one.

Chechnya has been home to a power struggle between Russians and Chechens for centuries, and it could be the next region to fall under Islamic State’s expanding global shadow.

Russia is facing the unsettling prospect of a wave of well-trained and battle-hardened foreign fighters returning to resume the insurgency in the North Caucuses.

Some view Moscow’s involvement in eastern Ukraine as proof of a resurgent Russia. But a look back at the Chechnya conflict would suggest otherwise.

Assessing the possibility of an attack from a Caucasus-based terrorist group on the Sochi Olympics.

Islamic fundamentalism is a newcomer to Chechnya.

Eastern Europe is still tattooed by the Soviet Union. Breakaway regions in Georgia and Moldova—Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria respectively—are autonomous territories in everything but name.