2002-04-19 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- Just hours before President Vladimir Putin told the nation that the war in southern Russia was over, separatist guerrillas in Chechnya killed 21 police officers ...

MOSCOW — At least four police officers were injured Monday in a series of attacks in the mountain republic of Chechnya, Russian law enforcement authorities said, raising fears of renewed violence in ...

Police have detained a 19-year-old Chechen woman at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport while she was on her way out of Russia to escape domestic violence, rights defenders told RFE/RL on June 12. According to ...

A top police official was killed by a mine blast in the Chechen capital Grozny, as Russian forces clashed with rebels throughout the republic, an official said Sunday. Vissit Erzhnukayev, the police ...

SARANSK, Russia -- Coming home from Chechnya to the placid streets of this provincial capital, Sergei Myasnikov and the other men in his elite Russian police unit thought only of losing themselves in ...

A mother of two has gone silent in Chechnya after her ex-husband accused her of abducting their daughter, the human rights group Marem reported on April 16. Belkisa Mintsayeva was blackmailed into ...

* Dubai police detain Russian suspect * Dubai police confirm Yamadayev is dead * Dubai police say organised criminal group behind murder (Adds quotes, background) By Tamara Walid DUBAI, March 31 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Getty Images Ukrainian drones have been reportedly downed over the barracks of Chechen leader Ramzan ...

Update: On October 25, the Fifth General Jurisdiction Court of Cassation in Pyatigorsk rejected the appeal. (Berlin) – Two men, whom police tortured in Chechnya, are appealing their conviction on ...

GROZNY, Russia, June 17 -- Police killed the top Chechen rebel leader in a special operation in his home town Saturday. Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev was shot in the town of Argun, east of the Chechen ...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish police said Wednesday they would arrest exiled Chechen rebel leader Akhmed Zakayev if he visits Poland as planned this week. Zakayev, viewed by Moscow as a terrorist but ...