Chechnya's strongman Ramzan Kadyrov has declared a blood feud against three politicians from Russia's restive North Caucasus region, raising the spectre of a significant interethnic clash. The ...

In Chechnya, blood feuds are a traditional custom of extracting revenge by killing an enemy or his male relatives. Reuters was not able to verify TASS’s translation of Kadyrov’s remarks.

For the first time since Moscow launched its full-scale of invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the territory of Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya has been targeted by drone attacks.

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology. She ...

Bearded police in camouflage clothes, carrying assault rifles and long daggers, stop cars with tinted windows in the rebuilt Chechen capital -- their latest ploy in the hunt for Islamist fighters.

A Ukrainian drone has struck a campus belonging to Russia's National Guard in the Russian region of Chechnya, as Kyiv continues to strike back after a mass air attack from Moscow.

MOSCOW -- International organizations on Thursday urged the Russian government to investigate the reported abuse and killings of gay men in Russia's southern republic of Chechnya. The respected ...