Chechen militants and police officers have ... threat to Kadyrov's authority inside Chechnya. One of the Islamist insurgent groups in the North Caucasus, the Caucasus Emirate, was dissolved ...

“During the war in Chechnya he helped Chechen insurgents and refugees to cross back and forth from Chechnya to Georgia,” a former spokesman for the Georgian Interior Ministry, Shota Utiashvili, tells ...

Russia's army has been heavily recruiting soldiers from its ethnic minorities, who make up around 20% of the country's population, to fight in Ukraine.

In an audio message released to jihadist forums on Jan. 24, al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri “praised Chechen insurgents, reflected on recent Egyptian history, and called upon Islamic revolutionaries ...