MOSCOW – The killing of top Chechen rebel Aslan Maskhadov leaves the insurgency largely in the hands of Shamil Basayev, the most brutal of the warlords – a development that could undermine any chance ...

By then, the Chechen struggle for independence was being transformed into a wider Islamic insurgency. In recent years, Chechnya has become more stable under the Kremlin-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, ...

How Chechen Terror Evolved: The Internet Foreign Policy's Paul Quinn-Judge explains "the dramatic speed with which the Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus is ...

* Pro-Kremlin authorities leak cash to rebels * More economic attacks are being planned By Thomas Grove ISTANBUL, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Islamist rebels in Russia's southern borderland are planning to hit ...