(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chechen commander Apti Alaudinov on Sept. 15 said that fighters who willingly surrendered to Ukrainian forces do not deserve to live and should "do everything they can to get themselves killed." "I'm ...

Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) on Nov. 30 released a video of an operation in the Russian-occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in which it claims to have interrupted the sale of stolen diesel ...

MOSCOW -- He is Russia's homegrown version of Osama bin Laden, but with a trademark all his own: dramatic mass hostage-takings that have often turned to bloodbaths. Like bin Laden, Shamil Basayev is ...

As more is learned about the background of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged suspect in the Boston bombings who is now the subject of an unprecedented manhunt, the teenager’s ethnic Chechen heritage has ...