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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...