Rising through the ranks at CNN, she covered war zones in Kuwait, Georgia, Bosnia, Lebanon, the Congo, Somalia, Chechnya ... fused with her knack for photography, turning her into one of the ...

They claim that nine new Russian paramilitary units have been established since the start of the war through Kadyrov. The Chechen army has even been seen testing out new war weapons in Ukraine ...

effectively beginning the First Chechen War. Thirty years later and two wars since, Chechnya, under strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, has become a key pillar of Russian President Vladimir Putin's ...

What do the Chechens want? Unlike Osama bin Laden and al Qaida, the Chechens are not fighting to establish a world Islamic state. They’re fighting for a state, period. Chechens are Muslims, but ...

The city’s relative calm merely masks what many have termed Chechnya’s “dirty war,” in which abuses, including numerous arbitrary detentions that often result in “disappearances ...