This threat comes at a time when the US has deployed a significant number of troops and weaponry to the Middle East.

MOSCOW (AP) -- Chechen rebels vowed Wednesday to carry on their separatist fight against Russia despite the death of their leader Aslan Maskhadov after special forces cornered him in an underground ...

GROZNY, Russia — Police killed the Chechen rebel leader Saturday acting on a tip from within his network, a possible blow to efforts to spread the increasingly Islam-inspired insurgency throughout ...