(CNN) — Here’s a look at the Beslan school siege. On September 1, 2004, armed Chechen rebels took approximately 1,200 children and adults hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, at ...

Sept. 1 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1715, France's King Louis XIV died after ruling the country for 72 years, the longest reign for a French monarch. In 1807, Aaron Burr, vice president of the ...

Chechen terrorists crossed a new line over the weekend, when a hostage-taking at a school in Beslan, in southern Russia, ended in the loss of some 500 lives--nearly half of them young children. The ...

Fears that the Beslan school massacre will lead to attacks against people from the Caucasus mounted yesterday after skinheads beat four people "of Caucasian appearance" on the underground railway ...

BESLAN, Russia, Oct. 13, 2004 -- -- In the Russian Orthodox religion, people believe that when a person dies, the soul lingers near the body for 40 days before it is finally released. Today marks the ...

ROME, February 6. /TASS/. San Marino’s Minister of Labor Alessandro Bevitori has officially nominated the Mothers of Beslan public organization for the Nobel Peace Prize, Ennio Bordato, Italian ...

MOSCOW, Sept. 9 -- Last week's attack on a Russian school has driven new wedges between Russia and the West in the fight against terrorism, as Moscow continues to accuse the United States and European ...

Dariya Fadeeva of Russia wants to resume her education at a school in America. “This is a great country,” the star of a new Showtime documentary, “Three Days in September,” said. “When I went to ...

BESLAN/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia broke European human rights law by using excessive force to storm a school seized by Islamist militants in 2004, causing a high number of hostages to be killed, the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mothers of Russian children killed in the Beslan school siege three years ago rejected Kremlin promises on Saturday of a thorough investigation, saying the government was complicit ...