MOSCOW — Human rights activists expressed concern Thursday about a kidnapped Chechen journalist as information emerged that she was apparently married to a separatist leader killed in an explosion ...

Robert Siegel talks with Andrew Meier, author of Chechnya: To the Heart of a Conflict about how Shamil Basayev's death may help Putin at the G8 Summit meetings. More now on some of the points that ...

MOSCOW – Shamil Basayev, the Chechen separatist leader who claimed responsibility for the Beslan school siege and was viewed by Russian authorities as the country’s most wanted terrorist, was killed ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who claimed responsibility for modern Russia's worst terrorist attacks, was killed Monday, Russia's top intelligence official said. Federal Security ...

Russia’s Investigative Committee says a military court has sentenced a man to 25 years in prison for being a member of a group led by late Chechen separatist field commander Shamil Basayev that ...

Russia’s most wanted fugitive, rebel warlord Shamil Basayev, has claimed responsibility for killing Chechnya’s Moscow-backed leader in a bomb attack that authorities increasingly believe was an inside ...

July 29, 2005 — -- Guerrilla Chechen leader Shamil Basayev, the mastermind behind last year's Beslan school massacre and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage-taking, is one of the most wanted ...

The Russian government has threatened to deny visas and press credentials to any reporter working for the ABC News after the American television network aired an interview with Shamil Basayev, a ...

MOSCOW — Russia has reacted with real anger to Thursday’s broadcast on ABC of a lengthy interview with Shamil Basayev, the Chechen warlord who is deemed by Moscow the most dangeorous terrorist in the ...

(RFE/RL) PRAGUE, July 10, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The death late on July 9 of Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev creates a window of opportunity for those few Russian officials who advocate peace talks ...

Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), announced Monday that Shamil Basayev had been killed shortly after midnight in a truck explosion outside a village in Ingushetia.

MOSCOW — A letter attributed to Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev said late Saturday that militants under his control burned down a Moscow theater last week and that more fighters were preparing ...