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/ 18 October 2005
Shooting broke out on Tuesday morning in three districts of the southern Russian city of Nalchik, as police and security forces said they were launching special operations to detain suspected militants. Alleged Islamic extremists conducted a coordinated series of attacks on police and other government buildings in the city last Thursday.
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/ 14 October 2005
They advance slowly and carefully, hugging close to the wall of a souvenir store, communicating with hand signals in a town shrouded in heavy morning fog. Without warning, the tense quiet is shattered as the special forces unit, backed by an armoured vehicle nearby, opens fire on the store with grenades and automatic weapons.
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/ 14 October 2005
Russian security forces killed a group of eight armed rebels and freed five hostages after storming a police station in the southern city of Nalchik early on Friday where the gunmen were holed up following a deadly rampage, a local official said, according to the Interfax news agency.
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/ 13 October 2005
More than 60 people were killed on Thursday in the southern Russian city of Nalchik in simultaneous attacks on government targets claimed by rebels from nearby breakaway Chechnya, officials said. President Vladimir Putin ordered the city sealed and issued shoot-to-kill orders for anyone using arms to resist police.
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/ 13 October 2005
Police and security forces on Thursday battled gunmen in the capital of the southern Russian region of Kabardino-Balkariya, including near a school near a police station. Schoolchildren were evacuated and black smoke billowed from the building as panic-stricken parents searched for their children in the schoolyard.