Image copyright AFP Image caption Russian troops in Chechnya have faced a low level insurgency for years

Six Russian soldiers have been killed and several wounded in a clash with armed militants in Russia's region of Chechnya, security forces say. Six Russian servicemen have been killed and several more injured in a militant attack on a Russian National Guard base in the Chechen Republic.The incident took place near the Chechen village of Naurskaya, 70 kilometers north-west of Grozny.According to a statement posted on the Russian National Guard website, "around 2:30am on March 24 a group of armed militants attempted to enter the territory of one of the military camps of the Russian National Guard. The Islamist militant group, through its Amaq news agency, said that the assailants, who killed six Russian guards and wounded three others, were "soldiers of the caliphate", Sky News Australia reported. Image copyright AP Image caption Chechen regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov has a strongman reputation and has quelled the insurgency

They still face a low-level insurgency in the mainly Muslim region in Russia's volatile North Caucasus area.
Six Chechen soldiers, along with six militants, are killed in a nighttime attack on a Russian National Guard base in Chechnya.