The rebels, both men and women, stormed the theater at 9:05 p.m. Wednesday as an audience of about 700 people watched a popular musical. They later released more than 100 women and children, who ...

In Chechnya, Basayev fought alongside Omar Ibn al-Khattab, a Saudi-born rebel leader who died in 2002, apparently after being poisoned, and later maintained close ties with another Saudi militant, Abu ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Chechen rebels vowed Wednesday to carry on their separatist fight against Russia despite the death of their leader Aslan Maskhadov after special forces cornered him in an underground ...

CNN — Here's a look at Chechnya, a republic in southwestern Russia, in the Caucasus Mountains region. Chechnya is bordered by Russia, the country of Georgia, and the Russian republics of Dagestan and ...

GROZNY, Russia — Police killed the Chechen rebel leader Saturday acting on a tip from within his network, a possible blow to efforts to spread the increasingly Islam-inspired insurgency throughout ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

MOSCOW -- Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, a fugitive with a $10 million price on his head who was linked by the Kremlin to a deadly school hostage siege and other terrorist attacks, was killed ...

GROZNY, Russia, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A six-month amnesty for rebel fighters in Russia's Chechnya region expired on Monday with Moscow's allies hailing it as a tipping point in crushing the uprising and ...