The First Chechen War became one of the most significant military failures of post-Soviet Russia. Poor planning, ...

MOSCOW, Sept. 12 -- The broken and burned bodies of children had just been pulled from the wreckage of a small-town school. All Russia was in mourning. And President Vladimir Putin was quietly furious ...

Tensions escalated sharply after a Ukrainian drone struck and damaged a high-rise building in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s ...

ALBAWABA- A Ukrainian long-range drone struck the Grozny City business center, one of Chechnya’s tallest landmarks, early ...

Horror Russian drone attack kills boy, 12, as Ukraine's shadowy kamikaze drone teams target Chechnyan spy headquarters in ...

For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the region as a loyal vassal of Vladimir Putin. It evokes images of a turbulent ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology. She joined ...

On Feb. 24, the Russian news media first reported the discovery of a mass grave outside a Russian military base containing the bodies of at least 60 Chechen civilians who had been tortured, then ...

In 2017, Chechen-born filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev was gifted a piece of land in Pankisi by his mother. A Georgian valley region at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains near the Chechen border, Pankisi ...

Aishat Baimuradova fled her home last year in the hope of living the way she wanted, but she was then found dead in her ...

GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - When it was last in the international spotlight, Chechnya was in ruins, its capital Grozny reduced to dust by the deadliest artillery and air onslaught in Europe since World ...