The Chechen leader also said measures would be taken to rescue survivors, if there are any. Chechnya has been the scene of an Islamist insurgency against the Russian state, although the violence ...

Several Chechen opposition activists have been assassinated ... After 2005 a low-level, anti-Kadyrov insurgency continued in the North Caucasus, with Islamist militants operating from villages ...

The siege in the Caucasus region of North Ossetia came amid a guerilla insurgency by Islamist Chechen separatists, branded "terrorists" by Putin. Putin launched a major Russian offensive to quash ...

However, the Second Chechen war from 1999 to 2000 brought Chechnya back under Russian rule, and a nine-year insurgency period followed. It's not clear how much time the brothers spent in Russia.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “eliminate at any cost” approach is reminiscent of the last major insurgency of ...