Three Chechen boys play war with wooden guns outside their home in a Chechen village near Grozny, on Sunday, Jan. 15, 1995. Their home-made toy guns are copies of the Kalashinikov rifles carried by ...

CNN — Here's a look at Chechnya, a republic in southwestern Russia, in the Caucasus Mountains region. Chechnya is bordered by Russia, the country of Georgia, and the Russian republics of Dagestan and ...

The war between Israel and Hamas is approaching its fourth month. Israel is steadily making gains in Gaza and slowly taking over the area. By any account, the war is far from being over. Yet everyone ...

How did Russia lose the First Chechen War? This modern history documentary explores Chechnya’s struggle for independence, the military failure of Russian forces, and the rise of leaders like Dudayev ...

The parliamentary elections scheduled for November 27 will be the troubled republic’s first since a 1999 war between Chechen separatist rebels and Russian forces, the second such conflict in ten years ...

GROZNY, Chechnya, Russian Federation, March 27 (UNHCR) - The authorities in Russia's war-ravaged republic of Chechnya have announced that, by the end of this year, they will provide apartments to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov have a personal relationship based on mutual dependence. Mikhail Metzel/Pool/AFP via Getty ...

GROZNY, Chechnya, July 12 (UNHCR) - A high-level United Nations mission is in Grozny today to raise concerns about the circumstances surrounding the Russian authorities' recent closure of two tent ...