MOSCOW -- Seven years after Russian troops entered Chechnya to end the republic's independence drive, the Kremlin is still fighting to bring the region to heel, the rebels battle on -- and the ...

Amid rampant speculation about his health, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-allied strongman who rules the region, has been ...

This is Chechnya behind the facade of victory declared by Russia seven months ago in its war against the separatist rebels. The Russians occupy almost all of the breakaway region, yet control ...

Dozens of gay men were kidnapped and tortured in the Russian region in 2017. Moscow -- LGBT activists have said authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya have killed two people and detained ...

Finding the right word to describe “Welcome to Chechnya” isn’t easy. Maybe shocking. Appalling. Disgraceful. Distressing. Ghastly. Heinous. Horrific. Shameful. All of the above.

Chechnya In Perspective: A Tumultuous History The news that the Boston bombing suspects had links to the troubled North Caucasus region has a lot of resonance in Russia. Russia had to fight two ...

"I am sick and tired of war, Chechnya, and imbecile commanders." In the hills "there are as many rebels as there are cockroaches in our barracks," said soldier Anatoly Chebotaryov.

Historically, Russian people have had negative relations with Chechnya and support Putin’s intervention in the country, along with Putin’s appointment of Ramzan Kadyrov as president of Chechnya. A ...