Footage of a firefight that surfaced on social media earlier this week appears to show an unusual group of combatants: Apparent Chechen volunteers fighting on the side of Ukraine against Russia. CNN ...

GENEVA, Jan 20 (UNHCR) - The President of Ingushetia has responded to UN refugee agency chief Ruud Lubbers' concerns about possible camp closures in the republic by reassuring him that all returns to ...

WARSAW, Poland, December 5 (UNHCR) - Shema drags her teenage daughter down the stairs together with the wheelchair. They live on the second floor of a reception centre for asylum seekers in Poland.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Mansur was 13 when Russian soldiers destroyed his village of Samashki during Chechnya's first war for independence against Russia. Wielding flamethrowers, the Russians burned ...

The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed an occupiers' commandant's office in the town of Svatove in Luhansk Oblast on 20 September. According to preliminary information, Chechens stayed there when it ...

GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Days before Crimea voted in a referendum to join Russia from Ukraine, Adam, a Chechen soldier, was ordered to go to the Black Sea peninsula to defend Russia's interests. He ...

August 29, 2021: It is generally acknowledged that the most efficient, ruthless and troublesome Islamic terrorists are the Chechens. This has been the case since the 1990s when Russia fought two wars ...

August 29, 2021: It is generally acknowledged that the most efficient, ruthless and troublesome Islamic terrorists are the Chechens. This has been the case since the 1990s when Russia fought two wars ...

GROZNY, Russia -- It was 20 seconds past 7:30 p.m. last Sunday, by the stopped clock on the wall, when a twirling mortar shell lobbed from the Russian military's main base plunged through the roof of ...

NESTEROVSKAYA, Russia — It was a quiet June afternoon when the military trucks roared into the abandoned dairy farm, slamming to a halt in a cloud of dust. Twenty men in black masks fanned out into ...

MOSCOW, Oct. 31 -- Chechen representatives and human rights officials charged today that last week's seizure of 800 hostages by Chechen guerrillas has set off a campaign of harassment against Moscow's ...