Caucasus Emirate
Former jihadist organisation
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| 2023 | Rumors of Caucasus Emirate's resurgence spread, though not yet confirmed. |
| July 7 2021 | Austria officially listed the Caucasus Emirate as a terrorist organization |
| 2015 | Kebekov's successor Magomed Suleimanov killed by Russian security forces several months after Kebekov's death. |
| 2015 | By late 2015, militants in North Caucasus Republics largely unified under IS's Caucasus Province. |
| June 2015 | Vilayat Nokhchicho leader Aslan Byutukayev pledges allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. |
| June 23 2015 | IS spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani accepts allegiance pledges from militants and announces creation of Caucasus Province, naming Rustam Asildarov as its leader. |
| April 2015 | Caucasus Emirate leader Aliaskhab Kebekov killed by Russian security forces. |
| February 2015 | Many commanders from Vilayat Nokhchicho and Vilayat Dagestan defect from the Caucasus Emirate. Loyalists denounce the defectors and accuse senior defector Rustam Asildarov of betrayal. |
| November 2014 | Mid-level commanders of the Caucasus Emirate begin publicly switching allegiance from Emirate leader Aliaskhab Kebekov to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi following al-Baghdadi's caliphate declaration. |
| 2010 | Beginning of a period of decline in casualties for the North Caucasus insurgency, with death toll progressively falling each year through 2014. |
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