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 ...

CNN — Here's a look at Chechnya, a republic in southwestern Russia, in the Caucasus Mountains region. Chechnya is bordered by Russia, the country of Georgia, and the Russian republics of Dagestan and ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW — Several dozen gunmen believed to be Chechen rebels killed at least five border guards in the Russian republic of Dagestan on Monday, then took at least four hostages from a mountain village ...

The parliamentary elections scheduled for November 27 will be the troubled republic’s first since a 1999 war between Chechen separatist rebels and Russian forces, the second such conflict in ten years ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a Chechen rebel Web site, the hostage takers called themselves “ smertniki,” a word that in Russian refers to fighters who die for a cause. About 600 hostages in total were in the theater, ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRUSSELS, Nov. 12 -- A French reporter who questioned the Kremlin's war in Chechnya provoked an angry outburst Monday from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who challenged him to convert to Islam and ...