While many Chechen fighters have deployed in Ukraine for Russia, this group is there to defend the country from the Russians. Meet the Chechen battalion joining Ukraine to fight Russia — and fellow ...

Here's a look at Chechnya, a republic in southwestern Russia, in the Caucasus Mountains region. Chechnya is bordered by Russia, the country of Georgia, and the Russian republics of Dagestan and ...

For many of the Chechen opposition members and separatists abroad who have come from across Europe to join a volunteer battalion in Ukraine, battling Russia has become a way of life. Decades -- even ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Kneeling in a patch of yellow wildflowers, a Chechen soldier carefully attaches an explosive device to the bottom of a small drone. Seconds later, it is released. It explodes next ...

A court in Russia's North Caucasus region of Chechnya again rejected a request by Zarema Musayeva, the imprisoned mother of three self-exiled outspoken Chechen opposition activists, for an early ...

DUISI, Georgia, April 15 (UNHCR) - The Georgian government has for the first time granted Chechen refugees the right to travel overseas, earning praise from the UN refugee agency for honouring its ...

Three Chechen boys play war with wooden guns outside their home in a Chechen village near Grozny, on Sunday, Jan. 15, 1995. Their home-made toy guns are copies of the Kalashinikov rifles carried by ...

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Mansur was 13 when Russian soldiers destroyed his village of Samashki during Chechnya's first war for independence against Russia. Wielding flamethrowers, the Russians burned ...