War in Dagestan (1999)

War in Dagestan
Part of the spillover of the Second Chechen War, Post-Soviet conflicts
Location of the Republic of Dagestan (red) within European Russia
Date 7 August – 14 September 1999[1][2] (1 month and 1 week) Location Dagestan, Russia Result Russian victory
Belligerents
Islamic Djamaat of Dagestan CPID  Chechnya IIPB SPIR Religious Police	Russia Armed Forces Army Navy Air Force VDV Spetsnaz GRU FSB MVD Militsiya Internal Troops OMON Dagestan Dagestani police and local militia
Commanders and leaders
Shamil Basayev Ramzan Akhmadov Dokka Umarov Movladi Udugov Ibn al-Khattab Abu Zarr Shishani (Gerat) Arbi Barayev Movsar Suleimanov Abdul-Malik Mezhidov Abdul-Vahhab Shishani Ismail Razakov (Bagram) Khunkar-Pasha Israpilov Shirvani Basaev Abu al-Walid Hakim al-Medani † Yaqub al-Ghamidi Abu Jafar al-Yemeni Rappani Khalilov Abdurrahman az-Zarki (Chechen from Jordan) Magomed Tsagarayev Ruslan Haihoroev † Huta Ahmadov (Abdurrahman) † Garib Shishani Baudi Bakuyev Umar Edilsultanov Isa Umarov Adallo Aliev Sirazhudin Ramazanov Bagaudin Kebedov Magomed Tagaev	Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin Viktor Kazantsev Gennady Troshev Alexander Baranov Adilgerei Magomedtagirov Magomed Omarov Magomedali Magomedov Said Amirov
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.