World Aug 11, 2017
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 ...
Editorials Jul 20, 2017
The world must loudly condemn the Chechen campaign against its gay population
Commentary / World Mar 10, 2015
Why Nemtsov's death got pinned on Chechens
by Leonid Bershidsky
The shooting of a Putin opponent by an underling of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has probably brought the sovereign and vassal closer together.
World Feb 20, 2015
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 ...
World Feb 5, 2015
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 ...
Commentary / World May 1, 2013
Why Putin's peace pact in Chechnya will collapse
by Ben Judah
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.
Commentary / World May 1, 2013
The paradox of the Boston bombing
by Nina L. Khrushcheva
Essentially the Boston bombers' stories are not so different from those of America's home-grown "lone wolves" — typically white and equally disenchanted.