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 ...

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 — 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 ...

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 ...

Russia’s most wanted fugitive, rebel warlord Shamil Basayev, has claimed responsibility for killing Chechnya’s Moscow-backed leader in a bomb attack that authorities increasingly believe was an inside ...

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 ...

Shamil Basayev is not well know in this country, although the extent of his crimes has made him as despised and hated in Russia as Osama bin Laden is here in America. Ever since his 1991 debut–the ...

Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), announced Monday that Shamil Basayev had been killed shortly after midnight in a truck explosion outside a village in Ingushetia.

Albert Yelakaev, a member of the terrorist gang Shamil Basaev, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, was sentenced to nine years in prison for attacking Russian soldiers in Dagestan in 1999. This was ...