MOSCOW (AP) -- Chechen rebels vowed Wednesday to carry on their separatist fight against Russia despite the death of their leader Aslan Maskhadov after special forces cornered him in an underground ...

New reporting has put the Chechen warlord's health in the headlines once more. But there are other, subtler, signs that the republic might be preparing for a regime change. Chechen warlord Ramzan ...

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia -- Russia's defense minister vowed Monday to keep battling rebels until they are flushed of out the mountains of southern Chechnya, where heavy fighting had broken out hours before ...

(NEW YORK) — A prominent Chechen blogger and critic of the region’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov has survived a suspected assassination attempt after fighting off a man he said attacked him in his apartment ...

(LVIV, Ukraine) — The Ukrainian military says it has repelled a Russian attempt to take control of the strategic port of Mariupol. The Ukrainian military’s General Staff said in a statement that ...

Apti Alaudinov, the Chechen special forces leader, said: 'If you die defending your homeland, you will go to heaven' - Getty Images Europe A Chechen commander has mocked the “sobs” of mothers of young ...

Recent fighting between government troops and rebels in Chechnya has killed 10 Russian soldiers, an official said Sunday. The Kremlin insists the war in Chechnya is over, with rebels defeated, but ...

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia -- Russian troops and Chechen police battled for a second day with rebels in an eastern Chechen town Saturday in fighting that killed at least 20 people, even as an amnesty offer ...

A Chechen human rights researcher is warning that militant Islamic ideology is gaining currency in the Russian separatist region of Chechnya and broadening its appeal elsewhere in the tense North ...