MOSCOW, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Islamist militants claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a bombing that derailed a Russian express train, killing 26 people, according to the website KavkazCenter.com. The ...

Today, the Chechen people and the broader Caucasian resistance community solemnly mark the 20th anniversary of the martyrdom ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DONETSK OBLAST — Moscow has fought bitterly to avoid giving up control over the lands it conquered over the centuries — and made ...

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 ...

For many of the Chechen opposition members and separatists abroad who have come from across Europe to join a volunteer battalion in Ukraine, battling Russia has become a way of life. Decades -- even ...

His Uncle Arbi was a role model for Movsar Barayev, the 25-year-old leader of the Chechen rebels who was killed last week after seizing more than 750 captives in a Moscow theater. Arbi Barayev, leader ...

About two months ago, Movsar Barayev disappeared from Argun, the war-shattered town southeast of Grozny where he was a Chechen guerrilla commander. People who asked after him were told that he had ...

First-time writer-director Malika Musaeva is set to make history at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, where her female-centered coming-of-age drama “The Cage is Looking for a Bird” is ...

Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov has been hospitalized in “critical condition,” according to Ukrainian intelligence officials, raising the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin could lose ...

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 ...

Jan 25 (Reuters) - The brother of Moscow's most wanted guerrilla says Islamist rebels in Russia's southern borderland are planning to hit economic targets and are getting arms and money funneled ...