Topic summary
1999 war in Dagestan
Russia
Armed Forces
FSB
MVD
Dagestan- Dagestani police and local militia
Shamil BasayevRamzan AkhmadovDokka UmarovMovladi UdugovIbn al-KhattabAbu Zarr Shishani
Arbi BarayevMovsar Suleimanov
Abdul-Malik Mezhidov Abdul-Vahhab Shishani Ismail RazakovKhunkar-Pasha IsrapilovShirvani BasaevAbu al-Walid Hakim al-Medani † Yaqub al-Ghamidi Abu Jafar al-YemeniRappani Khalilov Abdurrahman az-ZarkiMagomed TsagarayevRuslan Haihoroev†Huta Ahmadov† Garib ShishaniBaudi Bakuyev Umar Edilsultanov Isa UmarovAdallo AlievSirazhudin RamazanovBagaudin KebedovMagomed Tagaev
Boris YeltsinSergei StepashinVladimir PutinViktor KazantsevGennady TroshevAlexander BaranovAdilgerei MagomedtagirovMagomed OmarovMagomedali MagomedovSaid Amirovmore than 10,000 militants by the end of September
thousands of policemen and volunteers
15 missing and 937 wounded (per Russia)
Significant losses to local Dagestani police and militias
The 1999 war in Dagestan, also known as the Dagestan incursions (Russian: Война в Дагестане), was an armed conflict that began when the Ichkerian-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. They did so in support of the Shura of Dagestan separatist rebels.
The war ended with a major victory for the Russian Federation and the 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.