Hostage Drama In North Ossetia Enters Second Day; At Least 12 ...
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There are reports of two large explosions at a school in the southern Russian republic of North Ossetia that is the scene of an unfolding hostage drama.
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The last time Alla Gadiyeva saw her first-grade son and mother â-t the violent climax today of Russia&#39;s 53-hour hostage saga â - was helping them to escape.
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Pessimism and anger pervaded the Russian press on Thursday as the siege at a North Ossetian school entered its second day, with one paper taking the government to task for its apparent inability to deal with the crisis.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 21 -- She survived three days as a hostage and the destruction of the school where she has passed nearly all of her 72-year life. Now Lydia Tsaliyeva is heading home, and her life may be in danger all over again. Only this time the threat comes from her neighbors.
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As Russia began two days of national mourning for the victims of a school siege in North Ossetia, criticism mounted over the government&#39;s handling of the wave of terrorism that
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Artillery and gun battles broke out in Mogadishu for a second day running on Friday as a Somali government official said Islamist rebels had joined forces with thousands of foreign jihadists.
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Armed men abducted eight Georgian civilians in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, an area that last month saw fighting between Tbilisi and Ossetian forces, police said.
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MOSCOW  - Two days after the bloody end of a hostage crisis that left more than 350 people dead, the identity of the attackers who seized a school in the ethnic patchwork of Russia's North Caucasus region remained uncertain Sunday.
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As the death toll among former hostages climbed above 320 yesterday, there were conflicting accounts of how the three-day seizure of a Russian school erupted into its bloody denouement.
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MOSCOW: At least three people were killed when gunmen took up to 240 people hostage in a school in North Ossetia, close to Chechnya, ITAR-TASS quoted local authorities as saying.
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The hostage crisis at a school in southern Russian has ended, after a daylong battle between militants and authorities that left at least 100 people dead, many of them children, and hundreds more wounded.
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Officials pushed to get food and water to children and adult hostages that may number more than 1,000 held in a school here for a third day by militants who are demanding independence for the Russian republic of Chechnya.
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BESLAN, Russia - At least seven people were killed and 310 others wounded Friday, reports said, after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds had been held hostage for three days by rebels strapped with explosives.    Troops killed five of the hostage-takers but 13 others escaped, the ITAR-Tass news agency said...
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A television grab shows a soldier helping a girl away from the scene at a school in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 1, 2004.
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Following is a selection of comments on the school siege in North Ossetia, where Russian soldiers have battled Chechen separatists to end the two-day standoff.
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BESLAN, Russia - Armed militants who seized hundreds of hostages at a school in southern Russia released 26 women and small children yesterday afternoon, but they rejected proposals for resolving the standoff as anxious relatives settled in for a long
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Bulgaria in Brief: 6 September 2004, Monday. Hundreds of Bulgarians have expressed their condolences over the hostage tragedy in Beslan, North Ossetia, which claimed the lives of hundreds of victims, mostly ...