The Chechen leader also said measures would be taken to rescue survivors, if there are any. Chechnya has been the scene of an Islamist insurgency against the Russian state, although the violence ...

Chechen women in traditional dress ... since Russian and local troops quelled a separatist insurgency. One of Mr Kadyrov's family reunion team, Rustam Abazov, insisted that "there are no forced ...

Apti Alaudinov, commander of the Chechen Akhmat special forces battalion, has condemned Chechen soldiers who surrendered to ...

Basayev was considered by some as the undisputed leader of the radical wing of the Chechen insurgency. He was responsible for numerous guerrilla attacks on security forces in and around Chechnya ...

The siege in the Caucasus region of North Ossetia came amid a guerilla insurgency by Islamist Chechen separatists, branded "terrorists" by Putin. Putin launched a major Russian offensive to quash ...

However, the Second Chechen war from 1999 to 2000 brought Chechnya back under Russian rule, and a nine-year insurgency period followed. It's not clear how much time the brothers spent in Russia.