2002-12-16 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- Salman Raduyev, a Chechen guerrilla who became infamous for seizing a southwest Russian hospital and at least 2,000 hostages during the first war in Chechnya nearly ...

Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev promised he could seize Grozny with a single parachute regiment in two hours. On New Year's Eve 1994, his army instead drove into a meticulously planned ambush ...

TIME.com: What do we know so far about the hijacking of a Russian airliner from Istanbul to Medina in Saudi Arabia? Andrew Meier: The Turkish authorities are saying the hijackers announced themselves ...

Here's a look at Chechnya, a republic in southwestern Russia, in the Caucasus Mountains region. Chechnya is bordered by Russia, the country of Georgia, and the Russian republics of Dagestan and ...

Ten years ago tomorrow, the Russian Federation launched its first war with Chechnya, under the rubric of "restoring constitutional order" to the Chechen Republic. After a three-year interlude, from ...

_June 14, 1995: Chechen gunmen took 2,000 hostages at hospital in southern Russian town of Budyonnovsk, near Chechnya. After failed attempts at force, Russia negotiated hostages' release after week in ...

"When you have such a small group of people and such a small region subjected to that level of violence, the human consequences are unimaginable," said the adjunct Professor of National Security ...

Former Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, who has been linked to al-Qaida and was wanted in Russia for maintaining international terrorist ties, died here Friday, hospital officials said, after ...

UNHCR monitors reported a spike in displaced persons arriving in Ingushetia from Chechnya this weekend ahead of August 6, the date declared as independence day by Chechen rebels and the anniversary of ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Kris Janowski – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 7 August 2001 UNHCR ...