MOSCOW (AP) -- Chechen rebels vowed Wednesday to carry on their separatist fight against Russia despite the death of their leader Aslan Maskhadov after special forces cornered him in an underground ...

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia - Chechen rebels shot down a Russian military helicopter Sunday, killing nine soldiers, shortly after the defense minister announced he was suspending plans to cut back Moscow's ...

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian special forces stormed the theater where Chechen rebels were holding hundreds of hostages, and officials said they were in control of the building and had killed the lead hostage ...

MOSCOW - As the war in Chechnya drags on, acts of desperation committed by Chechen rebels furious at the destruction of their homeland have grown even more brutal, pushing them closer to extremist ...

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.

On a Chechen rebel Web site, the hostage takers called themselves “ smertniki,” a word that in Russian refers to fighters who die for a cause. About 600 hostages in total were in the theater, ...

MOSCOW - At least 40 armed Chechen rebels stormed a crowded theater and took hundreds of people hostage in the midst of a musical, threatening early Thursday to shoot their captives and blow up the ...

GROZNY, Russia (AP) -- Police killed the Chechen rebel leader Saturday allegedly acting on a tip from within his network and dealing a possible blow to efforts to spread the increasingly ...

In the past, Putin has rejected negotiations with the rebels unless the talks focused on their disarmament and abandonment of the drive for Chechen independence. The U.S. Embassy s security chief the ...