Oct. 29, 2002 -- -- Covered from head to toe in all-black Islamic robes with only their determined, kohl-lined eyes showing, they quickly came to be called the "black widows" as a horrified world ...

April 19, 2013— -- The two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings are of Chechen ethnicity, officials said today, identifying them with a group that has a long history of violence ...

Russian fighters are operating a black market for Ukrainian prisoners of war, The Times of London reported. The fighters, Chechens, "bought our wounded" after their capture, a Ukrainian official said.

A group of Chechen militants fighting with Islamic State (IS) in the Syrian town of Kobani have said they will not allow the Kurdish people to be "symbolized by godlessness and communism." ...

The term “Black Widows” was coined by the Russian security authorities in the mid-1990s after the Chechen jihadist leadership identified the first female martyr-bombers as widows and relatives ...

His face, with its bushy black beard and oddly placid eyes, is one of the most familiar in all of Russia. Chechen Warlord Always Brazen -- but Never Caught - Los Angeles Times ...

The Chechen 'Black Widows' return to Moscow and strike during rush hour to maximize civilian casualties. ... Two female suicide bombers detonated their vests during morning rush hour at metro stations ...

His Uncle Arbi was a role model for Movsar Barayev, the 25-year-old leader of the Chechen rebels who was killed last week after seizing more than 750 captives in a Moscow theater. Arbi Barayev ...

The three of us, in our work for the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism, have analyzed every Chechen suicide attack since they began in 2000, 42 separate incidents involving 63 people who ...

9 Chechen dancers wait backstage at a concert hall in the Chechen capital, Grozny. A suicide bomb exploded in front of the concert hall in 2009, killing six people and wounding several others.

Putin assumed that office on Aug. 9, 1999, and by the end of that month, Russia was waging a renewed bombing campaign against Chechen rebels in an attempt to reverse the earlier humiliation.

Chechen authorities pointed to a vitriolic Feb. 2 rally in the capital of Grozny which they say drew hundreds of thousands of people — an unverified number — as a sign of support for Mr ...