In his excellent book, Beslan: The Tragedy of School No. 1, Timothy Philips notes one operator who stormed across the gymnasium under heavy fire to kill the terrorists and save the remaining hostages.

Beslan: The Tragedy of School No. 1 Timothy ... in which 1,200 people were held hostage for three days and ... including the nature of Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions during the crisis.

MOSCOW – Top Russian officials met with survivors and relatives of victims of the Beslan school hostage seizure on Saturday, the third anniversary of the horrifying siege's beginning ...

On 1 September, 2004 more than 1,100 parents and children arrived at school No 1 in Beslan, many carrying flowers for their teachers, a tradition on the first day of the term.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Russia failed to do enough to prevent a 2004 terrorist attack on a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, where more than 330 people were killed.

A hostage crisis at an elementary school near Chechnya continued into its second day. Twenty-six women and children were released by bomb-carrying gunmen with suspected ties to Chechen rebels, but ...

By 1:05 p.m., the time of the first explosion that announced the bloody end to the three-day hostage crisis, at least 4,000 people had squeezed into the courtyard outside the Beslan school ...

On September 1, 2004, Chechen militants stormed an elementary school in the town of Beslan in the Russian republic of North Ossetia. They took 1,100 teachers, children, and their relatives hostage ...

Five years have passed since pro-Chechen terrorists seized School No. 1 in Beslan, a city in the North Caucasus, provoking a hostage crisis that ended in the massacre of 146 adults and 186 children.

In light of the school hostage crisis in Beslan, Russia, school administrators are considering what changes might be made to prevent a similar disaster in the United States. Hear NPR's Michele ...

Sole Surviving Militant Found Guilty In 2004 Russian School Hostage Crisis. Latest. U.S. L.A. Wildfires; ... A southern Russian court on Friday sentenced the sole surviving Beslan school attacker ...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Russia failed to do enough to prevent a 2004 terrorist attack on a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, where more than 330 people were killed.