As the Second Chechen War enters its sixth year, there is a pressing need to create an international commission to look into the important unanswered question of how it began.

Russian President Vladimir Putin could be facing another war front, this time on his own turf, as one Chechen battalion prepares a second offensive against Moscow, a spokesman for the volunteer ...

WASHINGTON — Launched by Moscow in 1999, the second Chechen war elevated the stature of Russia’s new and then little-known prime minister, a former intelligence officer named Vladimir Putin ...

The Chechen battalion, which allegedly has as many as 800 volunteer soldiers, has said it has a plot to use Putin’s latest war to its advantage.

The first conflict erupted in 1994. The second Chechen war began in 1999 and culminated in a siege by Russian troops of Grozny, the Chechen capital, which was devastated by heavy Russian bombardment.

As rebels in the Chechen Republic make their second bid for independence and the Russian response grows more punishing, Muratov sends Anna to the capital city of Grozny to write about what she ...

5 Chechen fighters near destroyed Russian tanks on January 10. In the first stages of the war, one column lost 105 out of 120 tanks and armored personnel carriers.

Strictly speaking, the Second Chechen war was not of Vladimir Putin’s making. When it began in September 1999, Boris Yeltsin was still president and Mr Putin simply the latest in a succession of ...

As rebels in the Chechen Republic make their second bid for independence and the Russian response grows more punishing, Muratov sends Anna to the capital city of Grozny to write about what she ...