THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED Monday that its security forces had killed Shamil Basayev, a commander of the jihadist insurgency in Chechnya. The death of the man responsible for the 2004 Beslan ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who claimed responsibility for modern Russia's worst terrorist attacks, was killed Monday, Russia's top intelligence official said. Federal Security ...

Robert Siegel talks with Andrew Meier, author of Chechnya: To the Heart of a Conflict about how Shamil Basayev's death may help Putin at the G8 Summit meetings. More now on some of the points that ...

Russia’s Investigative Committee says a military court has sentenced a man to 25 years in prison for being a member of a group led by late Chechen separatist field commander Shamil Basayev that ...

MOSCOW, Sept. 17 -- In an Internet posting, a Chechen rebel leader with a $10 million bounty on his head has apparently asserted responsibility for the Beslan school siege and threatened more attacks ...

July 29, 2005 — -- Guerrilla Chechen leader Shamil Basayev, the mastermind behind last year's Beslan school massacre and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage-taking, is one of the most wanted ...

MOSCOW – Shamil Basayev, the Chechen separatist leader who claimed responsibility for the Beslan school siege and was viewed by Russian authorities as the country’s most wanted terrorist, was killed ...

The Russian government has threatened to deny visas and press credentials to any reporter working for the ABC News after the American television network aired an interview with Shamil Basayev, a ...

(RFE/RL) PRAGUE, July 10, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The death late on July 9 of Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev creates a window of opportunity for those few Russian officials who advocate peace talks ...

MOSCOW — Russia has reacted with real anger to Thursday’s broadcast on ABC of a lengthy interview with Shamil Basayev, the Chechen warlord who is deemed by Moscow the most dangeorous terrorist in the ...

A rebel-linked Web site said Friday that Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev has claimed responsibility for a power outage that plunged Moscow into chaos two days earlier. "Our diversionary units delivered ...