The family’s neighbors in Dagestan told TIME over the weekend that Tsarnaev’s father, Anzor, attended services at the more moderate main mosque in Makhachkala, on Dakhadaev Street.

MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — Fire has engulfed the main mosque in a town in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan.

Russia's southern region of Dagestan is in mourning after a rampage by Islamic militants Sunday that killed 19 people, and attacked houses of worship in apparently coordinated assaults in two cities.

Only a fraction of the violence that raged across Dagestan on Sunday is visible at the moment, and it is already horrific. Co-ordinated attacks in Dagestan’s two main cities, hitting synagogues ...

I slamic authorities in Russia's mostly-Muslim North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Wednesday temporarily banned women from wearing the niqab full-face veil, after simultaneous attacks targeting ...

Yet Dagestan’s historically moderate Islam was challenged by Wahabi missionaries, many from Saudi Arabia. Today Dagestan has 3,000 mosques, serving a population of 3.2 million that is 95 percent ...