Russia's Investigative Committee launched a "terrorism" probe on Feb. 2 against the commander of Ukraine's 19th Separate ...

MOSCOW, December 3 /TASS/. Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, has pledged to kill IS militants who executed his fellow Chechen, allegedly a citizen of Russia, for working for Russian security ...

the Chechen Republic’s head, said on Thursday. "Manifestations of extremism and terrorism are being curbed. Nineteen militants, including a gang chieftain, were liquidated in 2015. Professional ...

When he was prime minister in 1999, he blamed a series of deadly apartment bombings in Moscow on Chechen militants and vowed revenge. The subsequent military crackdown in Chechnya was immensely ...

Russian authorities have opened a court case in a bid to reclaim control of Moscow Domodedovo Airport from its private owners ...

Chechen militants and police officers have been abducting, torturing, and murdering activists, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and those suspected of disloyalty to the regime. In exchange for ...

Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the “Akhmat” Chechen special forces unit, and Alexey “Serb” Milchakov, the neo-Nazi leader of the “Rusich” paramilitary assault group, have appeared together in a new ...

Police in the northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz are searching for up to 15 Chechen women, who have been assisting Taliban insurgents in the region, officials said Monday, confirming for the ...

Previous mass hostage-taking by Chechen militants in Russia have ended in heavy loss of life. "One body is lying near the entrance to the school. Two others are on the road near a fence.

After 2005 a low-level, anti-Kadyrov insurgency continued in the North Caucasus, with Islamist militants operating from villages near Russian-controlled Chechnya and Dagestan. Khangoshvili feared ...

Fears of terrorism have been high in the Russian capital since last October's seizure of a Moscow theatre by scores of Chechen militants, including women strapped with explosives and detonators.

More than 200 people were killed in the September bombings. Russia blamed Chechen militants, triggering the second Chechen War. Satter: Putin came forward as the savior of the country. He was put ...