VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia -- Attacks by Chechen insurgents left nine Russian soldiers and policemen dead, an official in the Chechen administration said Thursday. Four soldiers were killed and nine others ...

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia -- Recent fighting between government troops and rebels in Chechnya has killed 10 Russian soldiers, an official said Sunday. The Kremlin insists the war in Chechnya is over, with ...

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, ...

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 ...

He is the son of Akhmad Kadyrov, a former separatist mufti who switched sides to Moscow, he became head of Chechnya in 2007 with the backing of Vladimir Putin. Since then, Kadyrov has positioned ...

Baker Sergo Gornakashvili grew up near Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, haunted by echoes of the wars in nearby Chechnya, before trading his apron for a rifle and dying on Ukraine's front line. The Barron's ...