Five insurgents were killed in a shootout at a remote military checkpoint near the Afghan border of Tajikistan. The attackers had Russian citizenship. Two were from the “southern fringe,” most likely the Caucasus, where Russia’s active Islamist insurgency persists; the other three were a man from Tatarstan, an ethnic Kazakh, and an ethnic Russian.
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