A top ISIS commander known by his nickname Omar the Chechen — and recognized by his distinguishable red beard — is believed dead from a U.S. airstrike in Syria, a senior defense official told NBC News ...

Armed incidents, the number of victims of violence and the death toll connected with extremism have risen in Russia's troubled republic of Chechnya in 2016 compared with 2015. And 2017 started with a ...

A Chechen terrorist responsible for training Russian-speaking militants for ISIS is believed to be the planner of Tuesday’s deadly Istanbul airport massacre that killed 43, according to Turkish media.

Hussain, posted the last words of the first female Chechen suicide bomber, Hawa Barayev, who reportedly killed herself and 27 Russian special forces soldiers in Chechnya in 2000. A mother of 2 from ...