Details are emerging of an armed attack at the Fortress of
Derbent, part of a world heritage site complex located in Dagestan,
near the Caspian Sea. The Fortress, dating from the 5th
century CE, guarded the northern frontier of the Sasanian Persian Empire. Today,
the North Caucasus region is known for its political
instability and Islamist-linked violence.
The attack on December
30, 2015, which left one person dead and ten (or eleven) injured, including
two border guards, was reportedly carried out by local Islamist militants with links
to the so-called Islamic State.
While Derbent with tourists, this incident will likely dent the
number of visitors to the site, in a pattern which has become all too familiar
of late in countries in the region affected by Islamist violence.
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