Invasion of Dagestan

Date: August 7, 1999 • Location: Staraya Sunzha, Russian Federation

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1999–2009.

The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.

Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of Russia. It is situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, between the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. The republic forms a part of the North Caucasian Federal District, and shares land borders with Georgia to its south; with the Russian republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia, and North Ossetia–Alania to its east, north, and west; and with Stavropol Krai to its northwest.