MOSCOW — Chechen guerrillas who took over a theater here in mid-performance shot a woman to death, authorities said Thursday, increasing fears for the safety of about 700 remaining hostages. But in a ...

Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov hospitalised with kidney failure, Ukrainian intelligence says - Reports claim Kadyrov’s health ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Chechen rebels vowed Wednesday to carry on their separatist fight against Russia despite the death of their leader Aslan Maskhadov after special forces cornered him in an underground ...

The rebels, both men and women, stormed the theater at 9:05 p.m. Wednesday as an audience of about 700 people watched a popular musical. They later released more than 100 women and children, who ...

2001-08-01 04:00:00 PDT Mineralniye Vody, Russia-- Russian commandos stormed a bus yesterday that had been seized by two Chechen hijackers, killing one gunman and rescuing about 25 hostages after a 12 ...

In Chechnya, Basayev fought alongside Omar Ibn al-Khattab, a Saudi-born rebel leader who died in 2002, apparently after being poisoned, and later maintained close ties with another Saudi militant, Abu ...

Musa Khadjimuradov told VOA FBI searched his home, took DNA samples. May 17, 2013 — -- The former Chechen rebel who said his home was searched by the FBI in connection to the Boston Marathon ...

MOSCOW — The bodies of dozens of Chechen men, most of them shot, were found Saturday at a mass dumping site close to Russian military headquarters in the separatist republic of Chechnya, just three ...

GROZNY, Russia — Police killed the Chechen rebel leader Saturday acting on a tip from within his network, a possible blow to efforts to spread the increasingly Islam-inspired insurgency throughout ...

Vladimir Putin, who was sworn in as Russia’s new president early last week, gets along well with most of the “oligarchs” who dominate the nation’s economy. Spring has come to the Argun Valley in ...