The Soviet army incurred 13,500 combat deaths during its 10-year war in Afghanistan. This incessant stream of casualties between 1979 and 1989 corroded the legitimacy of the communist regime and was a ...

Chechnya's 34-year-old President Ramzan Kadyrov already has a palace, a private zoo, a Ferrari and a Lamborghini with personalized plates, a gold-plated handgun, a whole republic that he treats as a ...

An Islamic State loyalist was shot and killed yesterday outside the home of Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, in the capital of Grozny. RT, a pro-Kremlin site, reported that the 23 year-old assailant ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The resulting sense of national humiliation and weakness, and the manifest corruption and incompetence of the Yeltsin administration discredited democratization in ...

The leader of Russia's troubled Chechnya region says security forces have killed 11 suspected militants in two clashes near the capital, Grozny. Gunbattles, like the ones announced by Ramzan Kadyrov, ...

Hundreds of separatist rebels abandoned Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, on Tuesday as Russian forces took advantage of their flight, pounding the guerrillas with artillery as they tried to escape ...

On Saturday afternoon, a group of four armed people attempted to break into the Archangel Michael’s Church in the heart of Grozny GROZNY, May 19. /TASS/. The situation in the Chechen capital Grozny ...

Two days after the battles in Grozny between Chechen security personnel and militants claiming to act at the behest of Chechen insurgency wing commander Khamzat (Aslan Byutukayev), the North Caucasus ...

Chechen separatists declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Following years of internal turmoil in Chechnya and a failed coup attempt against Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, the Boris ...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is fully underway and there are signs that its much-feared assault on the capital Kyiv has begun. Analysts warn Kyiv could face the same scale of destruction the Chechen ...