GROZNY, Russia -- It was 20 seconds past 7:30 p.m. last Sunday, by the stopped clock on the wall, when a twirling mortar shell lobbed from the Russian military's main base plunged through the roof of ...

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In an important column, Justin Raimondo explores further the Chechen connection, which is not only the path to the older Tsarnaev brother’s radicalization but a Cold War leftover inside the Beltway ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alaudinov. Photo: TASS Apti Alaudinov, the commander of Akhmat, a Chechen armed formation fighting on Russia’s side, is refusing ...

GENEVA, Jan 20 (UNHCR) - The President of Ingushetia has responded to UN refugee agency chief Ruud Lubbers' concerns about possible camp closures in the republic by reassuring him that all returns to ...

MOSCOW, Oct. 31 -- Chechen representatives and human rights officials charged today that last week's seizure of 800 hostages by Chechen guerrillas has set off a campaign of harassment against Moscow's ...

A Belgian judge ordered three Chechens jailed on terrorism-related charges, a day after police launched country-wide raids over fears of a possible attack. Six people in all appeared before the judge ...

WARSAW, Poland, December 5 (UNHCR) - Shema drags her teenage daughter down the stairs together with the wheelchair. They live on the second floor of a reception centre for asylum seekers in Poland.

August 29, 2021: It is generally acknowledged that the most efficient, ruthless and troublesome Islamic terrorists are the Chechens. This has been the case since the 1990s when Russia fought two wars ...

Pope Francis has described two of Russia’s ethnic minority groups, the Chechens and Buryats, as some of the “cruelest” troops fighting in Ukraine. The pontiff was speaking in an interview with a ...