Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New reporting has put the Chechen warlord's health in the headlines once more. But there are other, subtler, signs that the ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Kneeling in a patch of yellow wildflowers, a Chechen soldier carefully attaches an explosive device to the bottom of a small drone. Seconds later, it is released. It explodes next ...

EXCLUSIVE: The ghosts of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal past have emerged amid his deadly war in Ukraine as a group of Chechen fighters now looks to establish their own stake in the fight. ...

Chechen Chief of Staff Aslan Maskhadov, a Soviet military academy graduate, had positioned fighters throughout the city. Most Chechen defenders were Soviet-trained veterans who understood Russian ...

For many of the Chechen opposition members and separatists abroad who have come from across Europe to join a volunteer battalion in Ukraine, battling Russia has become a way of life. Decades -- even ...