THE bizarre fiefdom of Chechnya has long been controlled by warlord and top Vladimir Putin crony Ramzan Kadyrov and his ...

Grozny has become a key target for the Ukrainian ... The former separatist rebel fought against the Russians in the First Chechen War, only to change sides and join Moscow in the second conflict ...

Russia won't say if it mistakenly downed an Azerbaijani plane on Christmas. But it acknowledges the crash came amid a ...

For example, during the 1999 Chechnya War in the Caucasus Russian troops used firepower intensive tactics to take Chechen capital of Grozny. The Chechens were ... World War II When telephones and ...

Sources told Reuters the plane had been hit by Russian fire. "It was as if it was drunk - not the same plane anymore," one passenger recalled.

The Wednesday strike hitting the police barracks in Grozny marked the first time a conventional war attack had hit the Chechnya capital since Russian forces captured the city and destroyed ...

Experts say evidence indicates that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane may have been hit by a ground-to-air missile over Russia’s Chechnya region before crossing the Caspian Sea and crashing near Aqtau, ...

Russia has warned it “rules out nothing” regarding nuclear testing in response to Donald Trump’s “radical” position on the ...

Among those hiding from Russian bombing in Grozny’s basements was Abubakar Yangulbayev, now a lawyer and human rights activist, who was then 2 years old. The First Chechen War left a deep ...