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 ...

In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. After losing the first and winning ...

MOSCOW, Sept. 2 -- On the eve of a decision to put down a separatist rebellion in the southern province of Chechnya 10 years ago, Oleg Lobov, one of President Boris Yeltsin's advisers, said that what ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) – Seven years after Russian troops entered Chechnya to end the republic s independence drive, the Kremlin is still fighting to bring the region to heel, the rebels battle on – and the ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers says Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov is a key figure for resolving the conflict in Chechnya - and should not be regarded as a terrorist ...

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday made an unscheduled trip to Chechnya, a mainly Muslim republic within the Russian Federation, his first visit in nearly 13 years, as Ukraine’s ...

Dozens of LGBT people have allegedly been rounded up and tortured. GROZNY, Russia -- Ricky said he had known the man who betrayed him for 10 years. He was 19 and for most of his life he had lived a ...

(AP) - Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson opened a boxing tournament in Chechnya on Thursday, becoming the first international celebrity to visit the war-ravaged Russian republic.

(Updates after plane returns to Moscow, adds quotes pars 4-5,7) GROZNY, Russia, March 8 (Reuters) - Russia's troubled Chechnya reopened its civilian airport on Thursday in a move intended to show that ...

Chechnya has banned women's clothing with "masculine elements," citing tradition, but critics argue it is about control. The ban follows hot on the heels of another recent restriction banning women ...