TY - SER AU - Flood, Derek Henry TI - The Islamic State Raises Its Black Flag Over The Caucasus KW - Estado Islámico KW - Cáucaso N2 - In the early hours of December 4, 2014, a group of militants staged a brazen attack in the heart of Grozny, the Chechen capital. They stormed a government media building and a significant part of the edifice was engulfed in flames. Clashes lasted for some 12 hours before the authorities regained complete control of the area.[1] The December incident belied the hard-won image that Chechnya had largely been pacified. The Grozny attack made headlines in part because Chechnya had largely dropped out of the news because the number of attacks within the republic had declined even as the violence seeped into other areas to the east and west UR - https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-islamic-state-raises-its-black-flag-over-the-caucasus ER -