GROZNY, Chechnya - Every morning in Chechnya starts with clearing roads of mines. Sapper detachments strengthened with armored cars examine roads that columns of Russian servicemen will take during the day. Sometimes they find land mines laid by Chechen gunmen targeting Russian occupiers....

ONE WOMAN has died, many others have been injured, and several hundred people have been taken hostage inside a Moscow theater. By last night, their captors had put land mines around the outside of the theater, strapped explosives to themselves and to some of...

Russia's war-scarred Chechnya region continues to be plagued by torture and unlawful detentions, with human rights violations rarely investigated, a European anti-torture committee said Tuesday.The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture, which visited detention facilities in Chechnya twice in 2006, said in...

More than 500 armed militants in Chechnya and other parts of Russia's troubled North Caucasus surrendered to authorities as part of an amnesty that expired Monday, an official said.Authorities proposed the amnesty last summer as part of efforts to secure peace and normal life in...

Essay provides an analysis of the conflict in Chechnya.