This threat comes at a time when the US has deployed a significant number of troops and weaponry to the Middle East.

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian special forces stormed the theater where Chechen rebels were holding hundreds of hostages, and officials said they were in control of the building and had killed the lead hostage ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the Beslan school siege. On September 1, 2004, armed Chechen rebels took approximately 1,200 children and adults hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, at ...

MOSCOW - As the war in Chechnya drags on, acts of desperation committed by Chechen rebels furious at the destruction of their homeland have grown even more brutal, pushing them closer to extremist ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Chechen rebels vowed Wednesday to carry on their separatist fight against Russia despite the death of their leader Aslan Maskhadov after special forces cornered him in an underground ...

GROZNY, Russia — Police killed the Chechen rebel leader Saturday acting on a tip from within his network, a possible blow to efforts to spread the increasingly Islam-inspired insurgency throughout ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — At least 20 pro-Chechen gunmen armed with automatic rifles and shotguns stormed into a hotel in central Istanbul Sunday and seized hostages, police said. It was not clear if ...