Caucasus Emirate

Caucasus Emirate (IK)
Имарат Кавказ
LeadersDokka Umarov †[1]
Aliaskhab Kebekov †
Magomed Suleimanov †
Foundation7 October 2007; 17 years ago (7 October 2007)[2]
DissolvedAugust 2016; 8 years ago (August 2016)
Active regionsNorth Caucasus, West Asia
IdeologyPan-Islamism[3]
Salafist-Takfiri Jihadism[4][5]
Separatism[4]
Islamic fundamentalism[4]
Anti-imperialism[4]
Slogan«Победа или рай»
(transl. "Victory or Heaven")[6]
Notable attacks~ Insurgency in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia
~ Insurgency in Ingushetia
~ Insurgency in the North Caucasus
SizeSteady Fewer than 1,500 (2010 est.)[7]
Allies Mujahideen in Chechnya
Riyad-us Saliheen
Opponents
Battles and warsSecond Chechen War
Syrian civil war[8]
Flag
Preceded by
Caucasian Front
Succeeded by
Islamic State IS-CP

The Caucasus Emirate (Chechen: Имарат Кавказ, ИК, romanized: Imarat Kavkaz, IK; Russian: Кавказский эмират, romanized: Kavkazskiy emirat), also known as the Caucasian Emirate, Emirate of Caucasus, or Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus,[9] was a jihadist organisation active in rebel-held parts of Syria and previously in the North Caucasus region of Russia. Its intention was to expel the Russian presence from the North Caucasus and to establish an independent Islamic emirate in the region.[10] The Caucasus Emirate also referred to the state that the group sought to establish.[4][11][12] The creation of Caucasus Emirate was announced on 7 October 2007, by Chechen warlord Dokka Umarov, who became its first self-declared "emir".[13]

By late 2015, the group no longer had a visible presence in the North Caucasus, as most of its members defected to the local Islamic State affiliate, Vilayat Kavkaz.[14]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference umarovdeath was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  3. ^ Al-Rasheed, Madawi; Kersten, Carool; Shterin, Marat (2012). Demystifying the Caliphate: Historical Memory and Contemporary Contexts. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-19-932795-9.
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  5. ^ Darion Rhodes, Salafist-Takfiri Jihadism: the Ideology of the Caucasus Emirate Archived 3 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, March 2014
  6. ^ "Теракт во Владикавказе. Не объявленная война.«Успешная» антитеррористическая деятельность -18 жертв". Archived from the original on 2021-02-03. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
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  8. ^ "Caucasus Emirate in Syria fighting in Aleppo". The Long War Journal. 17 May 2016. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  9. ^ Hahn, Gordon M. (2011). Getting the Caucasus Emirate Right: A Report of the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program. Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2011. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-89206-665-0.
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  11. ^ Karachaevo-Cherkessia Faces Renewed Militant Activity Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, Mairbek Vatchagaev, The Jamestown Foundation, September 26, 2008 09:56 AM
  12. ^ The Caucasus Emirate on the road from Yemen to Algeria (Part 1) Archived 2022-11-16 at the Wayback Machine, Sergei Davydov, "Prague Watchdog", June 6th 2009
  13. ^ "Two years of Imarat Kavkaz: jihad spreads over Russia's south" Archived 2011-05-12 at the Wayback Machine, Caucasian Knot, 7 October 2009.
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