The war has reached a critical point. A real peace seems unlikely, but a ceasefire is possible, most experts agree. The ...

Australia has vowed it will take the “strongest action possible” if Russia has harmed one of its nationals captured fighting ...

British wartime leader Winston Churchill once said he was an optimist, as there was no point being anything else. The year ...

Discussions of possible ceasefire negotiations in the war between Russia and Ukraine focus on the concessions that Ukraine could make to stop the hot phase of ...

In trying to dissuade anyone from noting a “Chechen trace” in the events in Uzbekistan, Kadyrov made the connection even more ...

Following Azerbaijan's president calling for Moscow to accept blame for downing an Azerbaijani plane, there is growing public ...

As with his earlier war against Chechnya, Putin’s obduracy turned an opening military fiasco into a brutal war of attrition which Russia’s resources could win at a huge price. But Putin’s ...

At a time when air safety is improving globally, military action against civil ... had been flying over Chechnya at the time and it was possible the plane had been hit by Russia’s air defences.

The post claimed two drones were flying over the same part of Chechnya ... against speculation about what caused the fatal crash. But the country's aviation authority dubbed the situation in ...

Troops under the command of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov ... with its forces implicated in many atrocities against Ukrainian civilians. Russia, which said Friday that an attack on the Grozny ...

The former separatist rebel fought against the Russians in the First Chechen War, only to change sides ... become one of the most powerful men in Russia. But as he has grown more powerful ...

The Embraer 190 aircraft was supposed to fly northwest from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the city of Grozny in Chechnya, southern Russia, but instead diverted far off course across the Caspian Sea.