In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. After losing the first and winning ...

(Reuters) - Following is a timeline of some of the major attacks on Russian soil since the beginning of the first Chechen war in 1994 to the present day: 1994-1996 - Tens of thousands of people are ...

They spent their childhoods counting victims, listening to detonations and military helicopters, hearing stories of horrors, and speaking their first words as refugees. December 2025 marked 30 years ...

MAKHACHKALA, Russia — The two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings have their ethnic roots in Chechnya, a part of the Caucasus Mountains that has spawned decades of violence — from ...