Witness the gripping tale of the Second Chechen War, where Russia's might clashed with Chechen insurgents led by notorious warlord Shamil Basayev. Experience the heart-pounding drama of conflict ...

Chechnya leader's son, 17, becomes head of Chechen security council By Reuters April 23, 20256:50 AM PDTUpdated April 23, 2025 ...

(Reuters) - The teenage son of Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia's Chechnya region and close ally of President Vladimir Putin, has been appointed secretary of the region's security council, ...

For their part, the Chechen insurgents, sometimes operating together with allied regional and Middle Eastern militants, carried out high-profile terrorist attacks targeting Russian civilians.

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s long civil war has reclaimed global attention after insurgents seized most of its largest city and dozens of nearby towns and villages. The stunning advance on Aleppo by ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled, insurgents in neighboring Chechnya fought two separatist wars for independence. Russia labeled the uprisings as terrorism and responded by leveling Grozny.

In 1992, some Chechen insurgents/terrorists hijacked a Russian passenger train from neighbouring Tajikistan, and diverted it to head to Chechnya. That was during the period of Chechnya resistance ...

Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, an ethnic Chechen born in Georgia, fought Moscow's forces during a separatist war in the region of southern Russia. After the war, he continued to help Chechen insurgents ...

From its earliest days, the Soviet Union’s intelligence services — whether known as the Cheka or by the names of any of its successor agencies like the KGB — kept the government i… ...