TIME.com: What do we know so far about the hijacking of a Russian airliner from Istanbul to Medina in Saudi Arabia? Andrew Meier: The Turkish authorities are saying the hijackers announced themselves ...

As more is learned about the background of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged suspect in the Boston bombings who is now the subject of an unprecedented manhunt, the teenager’s ethnic Chechen heritage has ...

It’s not getting much attention worldwide that hundreds of gay men in the Russian Republic of Chechnya are disappearing and being tortured in what are essentially modern-day gay concentration camps.

Why has Russia’s military failed to achieve a different outcome in Ukraine than in Chechnya decades earlier, despite years of modernization and investment? The answer lies in Russian president ...

The newspaper Novaya Gazeta on Thursday published the last article of its slain special correspondent, Anna Politkovskaya, along with transcripts of videotaped torture sessions of Chechens she had ...

Hasan Baiyev, a 37-year-old plastic surgeon of considerable skill and industry, and one devoted to the Hippocratic ideal of giving care to all who need it, is a marked man in Moscow. His offense? He ...

A Chechen human rights researcher is warning that militant Islamic ideology is gaining currency in the Russian separatist region of Chechnya and broadening its appeal elsewhere in the tense North ...

MOSCOW, Nov. 3 -- Russia launched what it called a massive retaliatory military operation in Chechnya today to avenge the seizure of a Moscow theater, and Chechen guerrillas responded by shooting down ...

Ten Jewish families have escaped the battle zones of the breakaway Caucasus republic of Chechnya, where the threat of a Russian civil was is looming, according to officials with the Jewish Agency for ...

A court in the Russian North Caucasus city of Nalchik has banned four archive videos by the AP news agency from the wars in Chechnya in the 1990s and 2000s for allegedly "propagandizing cruelty." One ...

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (AP) -- Chechen rebels killed six Russian soldiers and two riot police, officials said Saturday, only days after voters approved a Moscow-backed constitution that cemented the ...