Russians battle gunmen in Nalchik
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Russian forces storm a North Caucasus apartment block where militants were said to be holed up.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the town where commandos stormed a school in which militants were holding hundreds hostage in a chaotic battle that left at least 95 people dead.
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NAZRAN, Russia  - Russian troops killed four  rebels hiding in a house in the Russian city of Nazran, 20  miles from the border with Chechnya, in a firefight on  Saturday, officials said.
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BESLAN: More than 200 people were killed and some 700 were injured on Friday as crack troops stormed a school in southern Russia, freeing children and adults held hostage for almost three days by militants demanding independence for Chechnya.
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Russian authorities are trying to negotiate with the armed group holding at least 200 hostages, many of them children. The heavily armed militants stormed the school in Beslan on Wednesday and are demanding
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Ten of the estimated 30 militants who seized a school in southern Russia have been identified and six were from Chechnya, security officials said Thursday, drawing a strong connection to the Chechen insurgents who have been fighting Russian forces for years.
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Gunmen loyal to Somalia's interim   government battled local militias in its temporary capital of   Baidoa on Monday, in clashes that killed at least five gunmen   and wounded seven, officials and witnesses said.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian soldiers fought Chechen  separatists to end a two-day school siege Friday as naked and  screaming children ran for safety amid explosions and  machinegun fire.
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A battle is under way in Russia for the stately homes of the country's former aristocracy.
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Security officials have identified six of the militants who seized a school in southern Russia as being from Chechnya, drawing a strong connection to the Chechen insurgents who have been fighting Russian forces for years.
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Key events in gunmen's seizure of a school in the town of Beslan in southern Russia:
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Russian soldiers fled as shooting broke out in the spasm of violence that ended the school siege here, and unprepared special forces were forced to borrow bullets from armed locals who had rushed to the scene.
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A terrorist siege at a Russian school ends in a ghastly battle that leaves hundreds dead
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Russian troops storm the school where hundreds of people have been held as heavy gunfire continues.
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Russian troops stormed a school on Friday, blaming Chechen hostage-takers for a bloody battle in which more than 200 people -- dozens of them
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Russian forces swept through forested mountains in eastern Chechnya Wednesday in an effort to capture rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, once the president of the breakaway republic until driven from power.
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Description: Tensions between Russia and Chechnya escalated with the rebel seizure of a school in Beslan earlier this month. Chechen separatists claim the violence stems from decades of abuse by Russian authorities seeking to take control of the region.