Nothing about Kheda Saratova's demeanor indicated the nature of her work when I first met her in Grozny five years ago. She was escorting a group of rights activists to her native district of Shatoi, ...

MAKHACHKALA, Russia U.S. investigators are in contact with the parents of the two Boston bombing suspects in southern Russia and working with Russian security officials to shed light on the deadly ...

GROZNY, Russia (AFP) — Mother of five Zalina Gabibulayeva says she was “tricked” into joining jihadists in Syria five years ago. Now, repentant and repatriated to Russia's Chechnya, she goes into ...

Last week, the head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), Aleksandr Bortnikov, made a surprising announcement. The threat of the Islamic State (IS) group was of "such a serious nature" that the ...

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MOSCOW, June 26. /TASS/. /TASS/. Rights activists from Chechnya said on Tuesday they had been informed about 2,000 children from Russia, former Soviet states and other countries, who are currently ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. MOSCOW, Russia – Russian women who were held in Kurdish-controlled camps in Syria as Islamic State group ...

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — As the end nears for the IS enclave in Syria and the fate of jihadists’ family members becomes a pressing issue, Russia can be seen as a pioneer in systematically returning ...

Iraq sentenced 19 Russian women to life imprisonment on Sunday for joining the Islamic State terrorist group, outlawed in Russia GROZNY, April 29. /TASS/. Children of the Russian women who were given ...

The first thing you see when you step off the plane at Grozny’s international airport is a huge portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin hanging on the control tower alongside that of Akhmad ...

As the end nears for the IS enclave in Syria and the fate of jihadists' family members becomes a prescient issue, Russia can be seen as a pioneer in systematically returning children of Islamist ...

GROZNY, Russia — Women in this ultra-conservative region have long suffered repressive conditions because of strict Muslim doctrine practiced here. Now they face a new threat: pressure to reunite with ...