Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Satellite images of the burning university in Chechnya. Photo: Krym.Realii Radio Liberty journalists have posted a satellite image ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, ...

MOSCOW -- He is Russia's homegrown version of Osama bin Laden, but with a trademark all his own: dramatic mass hostage-takings that have often turned to bloodbaths. Like bin Laden, Shamil Basayev is ...

MOSCOW — The Chechen terrorist who claimed to have masterminded the Beslan school siege was killed in a huge explosion yesterday. Shamil Basayev was apparently preparing to mount a fresh attack to ...

Iya Rashevska was told her husband – a member of the country’s armed forces – had gone missing in the frontline in the eastern Donetsk region, in April 2023. The news of Serhiy Skotarenko’s ...

Adam Kadyrov, 17, is in charge of Chechnya's internal affairs ministry, which oversees police and local security forces in ...

Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev promised he could seize Grozny with a single parachute regiment in two hours. On New Year's Eve 1994, his army instead drove into a meticulously planned ambush ...

Four people have been injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on the Chechen capital of Grozny overnight, according to the Russian republic's leader, who said more than 80,000 fighters were "ready to move ...

GROZNY, October 29. /TASS/. The Russian Special Forces University in Gudermes was targeted by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attack; however, no casualties were reported, according to Chechen leader ...

(Adds details) MOSCOW, June 8 (Reuters) - Russian forces have killed the leader of the Chechen separatist movement, Doku Umarov, Interfax news agency cited an unidentified source in Russian law ...

A relative of the late leader of the short-lived Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev, was reportedly abducted and detained in the Russian North Caucasus region after he posted Dudayev's ...