2001-08-01 04:00:00 PDT Mineralniye Vody, Russia-- Russian commandos stormed a bus yesterday that had been seized by two Chechen hijackers, killing one gunman and rescuing about 25 hostages after a 12 ...

MOSCOW — Aslan Maskhadov, leader of Chechnya's decade-long separatist conflict against Russian rule, was killed Tuesday as Russian commandos closed in on his bunker near the breakaway republic's ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian forces have killed the leader of the Chechen separatist movement, Doku Umarov, Interfax news agency cited an unidentified source in Russian law enforcement agencies as ...

A Russian Mi-8 helicopter shot down by Chechen fighters near the Chechen capital, Grozny. (Wikimedia Commons) When Maskhadov gave the order to fire, Chechen troops destroyed the lead and rear vehicles ...

Officials in Chechnya say Russian forces have killed at least 15 Chechen fighters in an operation near the south-eastern town of Vedeno. Russia's top military commander in Chechnya, General Vladimir ...

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian special forces stormed the theater where Chechen rebels were holding hundreds of hostages, and officials said they were in control of the building and had killed the lead hostage ...