the film is set against the backdrop of the Second Chechen War (1999-2009), during the Russian invasion of Chechnya. The narrative is built through the unfolding stories of four characters ...

The former separatist rebel fought against the Russians in the First Chechen War, only to change sides and join Moscow in the second conflict in 1999. Human rights groups say he personally ...

What do the Chechens want? Unlike Osama bin Laden and al Qaida, the Chechens are not fighting to establish a world Islamic state. They’re fighting for a state, period. Chechens are Muslims, but ...

The war has reached a critical point. A real peace seems unlikely, but a ceasefire is possible, most experts agree. The ...

That same year the second Chechen war on the country’s southern border raged. Twenty-five years later, Vladimir Putin is still in the Kremlin, but Russia is again in the grip of war on its post ...

The First Chechen War ended with a ceasefire in 1996, but the Second Chechen War broke out three years later. The same thing, he says, could happen again. Zelenskyy, he says “should [have] every ...

He happens to consider Ukraine his country,” Zelensky countered, pointing out that Putin has previously waged devastating wars, including the brutal Second Chechen War. Also read Zelenskyy ...

December 30, 2024: Firepower is a multifunction tool in combat. For example, during the 1999 Chechnya War in the Caucasus Russian troops used firepower intensive tactics to take Chechen capital of ...

As with his earlier war against Chechnya, Putin’s obduracy turned an opening military fiasco into a brutal war of attrition which Russia’s resources could win at a huge price. But Putin’s ...

In trying to dissuade anyone from noting a “Chechen trace” in the events in ... loss of life in a foreign conflict means that the war in Ukraine could be the Kim regime’s most significant ...

Turkish police on Thursday captured a Chechen national wanted by Interpol-Europol for allegedly being a member ... more than 3,600 people with suspected ties to the terrorist group have been arrested.