The 2024 Dagestan attack occurred on 23 June 2024 when five Islamic State - Caucasus Province (IS-CP) militants executed coordinated terrorist attacks against targets in the Dagestani cities of Derbent and Makhachkala in the Russian North Caucasus. The attacks coincided with Orthodox Pentecost and targeted both churches and synagogues.
Three months after ISIS-K carried out the Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow and killed 145 people, an IS-CP cell planned to carry out a terrorist attack to demonstrate what they were capable of. Brothers Osman and Adil Omarov and their cousin Abdusamad Amadziev, politician Ali Zakarigaev, and UFC fighter Gadzhimurad Kagirov split into two teams: the Omarovs and Amadziev would attack Makhachkala while Zakarigaev and Kagirov attacked Derbent. Shortly before 6 PM on 23 June 2024, terrorists attacked the Orthodox Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin on Lenin Street in Derbent, slitting the throat of the 66-year-old priest, setting an Orthodox Christian icon ablaze, and setting the church on fire. At the same time, they fired on the Kele-Numaz Synagogue and set fire to the building. The attackers fled in a white Volkswagen Polo.
At the same time as the attacks in Derbent, attacks were launched in Makhachkala 75 miles away. The terrorists started a fire at a synagogue on Ermoshkina Street before attacking the Cathedral of the Assumption and firing on a traffic police post. At 7 PM, the attackers fired at polcie officers on Magomedgadzhiev Street. The IS-CP terrorists were chased down and killed by police by 24 June, and the Omarov brothers' father Magomed Omarov was arrested and expelled from the United Russia party.