2001-08-01 04:00:00 PDT Mineralniye Vody, Russia-- Russian commandos stormed a bus yesterday that had been seized by two Chechen hijackers, killing one gunman and rescuing about 25 hostages after a 12 ...
A Russian Mi-8 helicopter shot down by Chechen fighters near the Chechen capital, Grozny. (Wikimedia Commons) When Maskhadov gave the order to fire, Chechen troops destroyed the lead and rear vehicles ...
MOSCOW — Aslan Maskhadov, leader of Chechnya's decade-long separatist conflict against Russian rule, was killed Tuesday as Russian commandos closed in on his bunker near the breakaway republic's ...