The mountainous, southern Russian regions of Chechnya and Dagestan, sandwiched between the Black and Caspian seas, have become a breeding ground for radicals whose targets may be shifting from ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Yesterday was Armed Services Day in Russia, so, of course, there were observances in Moscow. But yesterday also was the 60th anniversary of a Soviet crime perpetrated against the Chechen people — and, ...

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Mansur was 13 when Russian soldiers destroyed his village of Samashki during Chechnya's first war for independence against Russia. Wielding flamethrowers, the Russians burned ...

August 29, 2021: It is generally acknowledged that the most efficient, ruthless and troublesome Islamic terrorists are the Chechens. This has been the case since the 1990s when Russia fought two wars ...

At this point we still don’t know how much time Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the two brothers suspected of committing the Boston Marathon bombing, spent in Chechnya. Dzhokhar, who emigrated with ...

WARSAW, Poland, December 5 (UNHCR) - Shema drags her teenage daughter down the stairs together with the wheelchair. They live on the second floor of a reception centre for asylum seekers in Poland.

When the first reports emerged that the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing were Chechen, there were of course reactions of outrage and calls for justice. But at the same time, a collective "huh?" ...

While many Chechen fighters have deployed in Ukraine for Russia, this group is there to defend the country from the Russians. Meet the Chechen battalion joining Ukraine to fight Russia — and fellow ...