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 ...

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (AP) - Chechen rebels ambushed and killed five Russian troops and pro-Moscow policemen responding to an emergency call about the shooting of a village elder, officials said Friday.

Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence has released a video showing Chechen volunteers fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as they destroy a truck driven by Russian invaders. Source: Defence ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, July 19 -- At least 15 people were killed Tuesday when rebels ambushed and blew up a police vehicle in Chechnya, the southern Russian republic wracked by a separatist insurgency. The ...

MOSCOW, June 16 (Reuters) - Rebels in Russia's southern Chechnya region killed three soldiers in an ambush on a military convoy on Monday, news agencies reported, in one of the deadliest attacks on ...