A Russian man was charged by federal prosecutors Tuesday with the brazen killing of a Georgian man on the streets of Berlin last year, in a case that has already prompted political fallout between Berlin and Moscow. Vadim K., who used the alias Vadim S., ...
Austrian authorities have foiled a plot to carry out a series of terror attacks, including bombing one of Vienna's Christmas markets, local media reported Monday. The plot involved three men, including a 24-year-old ringleader who had been influenced by the ideology of the Islamic State ...
U.S. sees Moscow behind murder of Georgian in Germany, report says
The United States sees Moscow behind the murder in Germany last month of a Georgian man who had fought against Russian forces in Chechnya, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. "The United States believes that Russia is responsible for this assassination," one of several unnamed ...
15 years on, relatives of Beslan massacre victims demand answers
Relatives of victims of the Beslan massacre on Sunday said they were still waiting for answers, 15 years after the tragedy that left over 330 dead, including 186 children. Sunday marks the anniversary of the school siege in the town of Beslan in the Russian ...
Islamic State fighters trapped in Raqqa, but Chechen snipers slow U.S.-backed forces
U.S.-backed forces now have Islamic State fighters surrounded in central Raqqa, a Syrian Kurdish commander said, but he predicted that driving the militants out could take up to four months. "We've cleared about half of Old Raqqa ... and we're advancing on all axes," said ...
The world must loudly condemn the Chechen campaign against its gay population
Why Nemtsov's death got pinned on Chechens
The shooting of a Putin opponent by an underling of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has probably brought the sovereign and vassal closer together.
Putin tries to deflect Muslim rage toward his foes as jihad threat rises in Russia
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims vented their anger in unison, shouting, "Allahu akbar!" as their leader condemned supporters of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo after militants murdered five of its cartoonists. The protest against caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad and the policies of ...
Russia said to be leading U.N. effort to curb Islamic State's cash flow
Russia has drafted a United Nations Security Council resolution intended to increase pressure on governments to cut off cash flowing to the Islamic State group, according to a Russian diplomat and three other U.N. diplomats. The draft, which already has been circulated to the four ...
Why Putin's peace pact in Chechnya will collapse
The involvement of two ethnic Chechens in the Boston Marathon bombing shows that the wars that ravaged the Russian republic more than a decade ago aren't over.
The paradox of the Boston bombing
Essentially the Boston bombers' stories are not so different from those of America's home-grown "lone wolves" — typically white and equally disenchanted.
