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 ...

A Chechen human rights researcher is warning that militant Islamic ideology is gaining currency in the Russian separatist region of Chechnya and broadening its appeal elsewhere in the tense North ...

Friday’s attack at a Moscow theater was an historic act of terrorism. It was the most grotesque slaughter of human life in Russia since the high point of Chechen terrorist... Russian state media ...

The Chechen-led Army of the Emigrants and Helpers in Syria has sworn allegiance to the head of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. The group is awaiting approval from the head of the al ...

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (AP) -- Chechen rebels killed six Russian soldiers and two riot police, officials said Saturday, only days after voters approved a Moscow-backed constitution that cemented the ...

MOSCOW, May 9 -- Chechnya's pro-Russian leader, Akhmad Kadyrov, was killed Sunday by a powerful explosion that ripped through a stadium in the capital of the rebellious republic in one of the boldest ...

Why has Russia’s military failed to achieve a different outcome in Ukraine than in Chechnya decades earlier, despite years of modernization and investment? The answer lies in Russian president ...