Meanwhile, Russian troops killed 17 Chechen rebels in a series of clashes across the breakaway republic over the past 24 hours, the federal military told ITAR-TASS news agency on Tuesday.

Another pro-Moscow Chechen official was shot dead by secessionist rebels earlier this week, the office of the Kremlin advisor for the Chechen conflict said Wednesday. The murder of Lechi ...

The family of a British journalist believed to have been killed while reporting on the conflict between Chechen rebels and Russian forces have paid tribute to him. Roddy Scott, 31, is understood ...

Some 700 people are still being held hostage in a Moscow theater on Dubvovka Street by Chechen rebels, who are demanding withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya.