Authorities have not linked Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to any insurgent groups, and the Kremlin-backed strongman who now leads Chechnya says the brothers got their inspiration in the U.S., not the ...

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, ...

In 1999, a convergence of FSB corruption scandals, NATO's Kosovo campaign, and a reigniting Chechen conflict created the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New reporting has put the Chechen warlord's health in the headlines once more. But there are other, subtler, signs that the ...

Russia’s invasion of Chechnya was marked by intense violence and lasting devastation. Reports detail military strategies, civilian impact, and the broader geopolitical implications. Experts say the ...

GROZNY, Chechnya, Russian Federation, March 27 (UNHCR) - The authorities in Russia's war-ravaged republic of Chechnya have announced that, by the end of this year, they will provide apartments to ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Seven years after Russian troops entered Chechnya to end the republic s independence drive, the Kremlin is still fighting to bring the region to heel, the rebels battle on – and the ...

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 ...

SOCHI, Russia -- Natasha Yaroslavtseva's son Sasha hanged himself almost a year ago. He was 21, and just back from the war in Chechnya. Back to Sochi, the famous and now run-down Soviet-era resort on ...

MOSCOW, Sept. 2 -- On the eve of a decision to put down a separatist rebellion in the southern province of Chechnya 10 years ago, Oleg Lobov, one of President Boris Yeltsin's advisers, said that what ...