The rebels, both men and women, stormed the theater at 9:05 p.m. Wednesday as an audience of about 700 people watched a popular musical. They later released more than 100 women and children, who ...

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 ...

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 - 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 ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — At least 20 pro-Chechen gunmen armed with automatic rifles and shotguns stormed into a hotel in central Istanbul Sunday and seized hostages, police said. It was not clear if ...

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, ...