2001-08-01 04:00:00 PDT Mineralniye Vody, Russia-- Russian commandos stormed a bus yesterday that had been seized by two Chechen hijackers, killing one gunman and rescuing about 25 hostages after a 12 ...

2004-07-14 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- The acting president of war-torn Chechnya survived a bomb attack on his motorcade Tuesday that killed a bodyguard and wounded three people, including a top adviser, ...

MOSCOW, June 24. /TASS/. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has slammed the armed mutiny of the PMC Wagner as betrayal and said that Chechen commandos are on the way to the areas of tensions. "What is ...

BESLAN, Russia - A three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the ...

GROZNY, February 20. /TASS/. Fighters from the Akhmat commando unit, together with a battalion from the 2nd Army Corps of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) people’s militia, have taken a strategic ...

MEDINA, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi commandos rushed up ladders and broke through the windows and doors of a Russian plane today, freeing more than 100 hostages and ending a hijacking by Chechen rebels.

MOSCOW -- A shocked, wary Russia counted its rising toll of dead and steeled itself for new terrorist blows Saturday in its never-ending Chechen war, after commandos striking behind clouds of ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- A shocked, wary Russia counted its rising toll of dead and steeled itself for new terrorist blows Saturday in its never-ending Chechen war, after commandos striking behind clouds of ...

Host Liane Hansen speaks with NPR's Lawrence Sheets about this past week's hostage standoff at a Moscow theater. Chechen guerrillas held more than 700 people hostage, to protest Russia's war with ...

Three die as Saudi commandos storm a plane held by Chechen rebels demanding a halt to genocide in their republic. MEDINA, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi commandos rushed up ladders and broke through the ...

MOSCOW -- The gas used by Russian commandos in their assault on a Moscow theater killed all but one of the 118 hostages who have perished so far, Russian health officials said Sunday night. And the ...