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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian forces have killed the leader of the Chechen separatist movement, Doku Umarov, Interfax news agency cited an unidentified source in Russian law enforcement agencies as ...

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian special forces stormed the theater where Chechen rebels were holding hundreds of hostages, and officials said they were in control of the building and had killed the lead hostage ...