The Council of Europe's human rights supremo has begun a fact-finding trip to Chechnya as new allegations of military abuses surface in the region. Alvaro Gil-Robles flew to Chechnya after pressing ...

In October 2002, armed militants stormed a Moscow theater during a sold-out performance and took hundreds of people hostage. The attackers, linked to the conflict in Chechnya, demanded that Russian ...

The Iranian government has faced major protests over the years, including a mass outbreak that it brutally suppressed in ...

This is the "smart bomb" trap: A discrete strike intended to compress a conflict instead transforms its character.

How the murder of a Chechen woman in the southern French city of Nice has resulted in local Chechen women speaking out against patriarchal traditions which normally force them to remain silent. Also ...

Information warfare constitutes one of the key elements of Russia’s strategic competition. In Russian doctrine, information is not perceived solely as a tool supporting military operations, but also ...

First introduced in the 1970s, the Su-25 Frogfoot was built as the Soviet answer to the American A-10 Warthog, designed specifically for close air support missions. The aircraft is heavily armored, ...

The U.S. and Israel gambled on “decapitation” in Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and many others. History ...

The U.S. and Israel gambled on "decapitation" in Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and many others. History shows the danger of this approach in nationalist conflicts: It often works ...

The findings do not appear to signal a wholesale turning of the tides in the Ukraine war. But they do highlight a growing consensus that Russia’s war on Ukraine -- now in its fifth year -- has ground ...

A recent investigation by RFE/RL's Schemes unit revealed that a senior Russian commander shared a meme among fellow officers that read, 'It's not a war crime if it was fun.' The sentiment is ...

Bombing could cause either a slightly modified version of the current regime to emerge, or a much more radical regime.