Turkish official: Attackers were from Russia, Central Asia
By DOMINIQUE SOGUEL and SUZAN FRASER As the death toll from the Istanbul airport attack rose Thursday to 44, a senior Turkish official said the three suicide bombers who carried…
Chechnya
Gun battles in Chechen capital leave 19 dead
By MUSA SADULAYEV Security forces in the capital of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya stormed two buildings, including a school, in fierce gun battles with militants early Thursday that…
RUSSIANS HUNT FOR HUSBAND OF SUICIDE BOMBER
By VITNIJA SALDAVA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV In this image made from video, experts and officials examine a wreckage of a bus in Volgograd, Russia Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. A female…
SUICIDE BOMBER STRIKES RUSSIAN BUS, KILLING 6
By LYNN BERRY A damaged bus is examined by experts in Volgograd, Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. The blast was caused by “an unspecified explosive device,” the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said…
POLICE: SUICIDE CAR BOMB KILLS 3 IN CHECHNYA
Chechen Police officers secure the area after a bomb blast at the police station in Sernovodsk, Chechnya, southern Russia, on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Russian news reports say three policemen…
BOSTON SUSPECTS’ CHECHEN FAMILY TRAVELED LONG ROAD
By LEILA SARALAYEVA Schoolchildren march in front of a school where Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was dubbed a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, studied, in a small Kyrgyz city Tokmok…
RUSSIA’S CAUCASUS: BREEDING GROUND FOR TERROR
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT – FILE -A Russian soldier lies dead as Chechen fighters gather next to a tank outside the presidential palace in central Grozny, in this Jan. 3,…
1 OF 2 MASS. BOMB SUSPECTS DEAD; SUBURBS SHUT DOWN
By EILEEN SULLIVAN, MEGHAN BARR and KATIE ZEZIMA An FBI official arrives at the Watertown neighborhood of Boston, Friday, April 19, 2013. Reports of explosives being detonated and police are…