A Chechen rebel leader who vowed to disrupt the Sochi Winter Olympics is dead, Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov said on Friday although Russian security services did not confirm the claim. Doku Umarov ...

MOSCOW, Dec. 3 -- In a rebuff to Russia's efforts to cast the Chechen conflict as a war on terrorism, Denmark today rejected Moscow's request to extradite Akhmed Zakayev, a leading representative of ...

MOSCOW -- Chechen rebel envoys have contacted Russian officials about possible disarmament talks, a Kremlin envoy said Thursday, in the first step toward peace negotiations in two years of war. The ...

The band of heavily armed Chechen rebels holding hundreds of hostages at a Moscow theater agreed early on Friday to free all 75 foreigners held captive, the first major breakthrough in the crisis as ...