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 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; Sergei Stepashin; 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	17,000 soldiers,; thousands of policemen and volunteers
Casualties and losses
Russian claim: 2,500 militants killed	275 servicemen killed,; 15 missing and 937 wounded (per Russia); Significant losses to local Dagestani police and militias
	Unknown number of civilian casualties

The 1999 war in Dagestan, also known as the Dagestan incursions (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.