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At least 15 police officers and four civilians including a priest are dead after gunmen opened fire at two Orthodox churches and two synagogues in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Sunday evening. Russian law enforcement has deemed the attacks, which saw both police and National Guard officers deployed, as a terrorist attack. The attacks are the latest incident involving the majority Muslim republic following an anti-Israeli mob at the republic’s main airport in October 2023 and the Moscow concert hall massacre of March 2024, which was partly carried out by Dagestani nationals an…