Some of them still felt closely related to their destroyed home-city Grozny started rebuilding their military units in Ingushetia, still loyal to Aslan Maskhadov and Basayev.

In 2000-2001 the jamaat was reformed along territorial lines in Ingushetia proper, with many units tied to a single city or area.

[6][7] The group played a key role in the 2004 Nazran raid, an important event which helped to escalate the low-level Ingush insurgency since 2002 into the increasing unrest[8] and eventually into a "civil war", in which more than 800 people died in this tiny republic of less than 500,000 by November 2008.

Following the death of Ilyas Gorchkhanov in Nalchik, the leader of the Ingush Jamaat was Akhmed Yevloyev until his capture in June 2010.

[12] The capture or killing of many Vilayat commanders from 2010 onwards coincided with a decline in the insurgency in Ingushetia, with the number of attacks falling substantially over the next 5 years.