This is the "smart bomb" trap: A discrete strike intended to compress a conflict instead transforms its character.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the ...

The parliamentary elections scheduled for November 27 will be the troubled republic’s first since a 1999 war between Chechen separatist rebels and Russian forces, the second such conflict in ten years ...

The First Chechen War traces Chechnya’s long struggle for autonomy, from the historical formation of Chechen identity and resistance to Russian expansion to the trauma of Soviet rule and the 1944 ...

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 ...

GROZNY, Chechnya, Russian Federation, March 27 (UNHCR) - The authorities in Russia's war-ravaged republic of Chechnya have announced that, by the end of this year, they will provide apartments to ...

Facing what activists say is a hardening of repression inside Chechnya amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Asil and Aishat, both young women, recently fled their violent families in search of safety.

Russia?s road to political and economic stability has been a long and trying one for a country unique in many ways to the rest of the world. With its large, extremely heterogeneous population, massive ...