Caucasus

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Georgia is training and lending safe passage to Al-Qaeda agents planning terrorist acts in the Russian Caucasus, the head of Russia's FSB secret service charged Tuesday. Georgia immediately denied the claim as "preposterous" and accused Moscow of stoking tensions. "Audio evidence seized ...

Georgia is training and lending safe passage to Al-Qaeda agents planning terrorist acts in the Russian Caucasus, the head of Russia's FSB secret service charged Tuesday. "Audio evidence seized from insurgents shows that, together with emissaries of Al-Qaeda, they had contacts with ...

Chechen security forces kill 8 militants in southern mountains in 2-hour gunbattle Chechen forces engaged in a two-hour gunbattle with militants Friday, leaving eight insurgents dead in the violence-wracked Russian province, authorities said. Chechnya's Moscow-backed regional President Ramzan Kadyrov has claimed militants ...

A look at the republics in Russia's violence-wracked North Caucasus The mountainous regions of southernmost Russia, known as the North Caucasus, have a combined population of almost 7 million and have long been beset by violence, stoked by poverty, corruption, Islamic extremism, ...

Suicide bombings, kidnappings, poverty _ Russia's North Caucasus slips again toward war Melted rubber sandals float in the bus-sized crater outside what's left of the Nazran city police department. The devastation is testament to what happened just after 9 a.m. on Aug. ...

Kremlin-backed Chechen leader claims US, British intelligence services back rebels The controversial Kremlin-backed president of Chechnya claims that militants in the violence-plagued Russian province are backed by U.S. and British intelligence agencies. Ramzan Kadyrov's remark was probably the bluntest claim by a ...

Several people were injured on Wednesday when a female suicide bomber blew herself up on the busy central street of Chechnya's capital, undercutting Russia's claims to have restored stability. Two police and up to six civilians were hurt in the attack on ...

Suicide bombings, slayings and clashes kill 7 in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region Militant attacks and gunbattles across Russia's violence-plagued North Caucasus left seven people dead Saturday, including the second suicide bomber to strike in less than 24 hours, law enforcement and ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A suicide bomber has blown himself up in a truck at a traffic police checkpoint in Russia's volatile Ingushetia region killing one other person and wounding at least five, Russian agencies reported on Friday. State-controlled RIA news agency, quoting ...