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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: The ghosts of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal past have emerged amid his deadly war in Ukraine as a group of Chechen fighters now looks to establish their own stake in the fight. ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has promoted his close accomplice, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, to colonel general. Who is Putin's self-avowed 'foot soldier'? Ramzan Kadyrov is known as a staunch ...

ALMOST every month for the past two years, Chechen suicide bombers have struck. Their targets can be anything from Russian soldiers to Chechen police officers to the innocent civilians who were killed ...

An elderly Chechen man goes to pray at a snow-covered cemetery, a memorial to the Stalin-era deportation's victims, in the Chechen Republic's capital Grozny on March 12, 2021 [File: Musa Sadulayev/AP] ...

Now when I think back to the war, …we were not as frightened as now. Fear of a bomb, fear of a bullet–it’s something we could live with…. But this … utter ...

A furor over the arrest of a woman by agents of the Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov shows the internal challenges facing President Vladimir V. Putin, even as he tries to project global power. By ...

In 1997, Chechens elected military leader Aslan Maskhadov as president and changed Grozny’s name to “Jokhar” in honor of slain Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev. To impose order, Islamic Sharia law was ...