Command Failure Seen at Fault in Beslan Massacre
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Security forces bungled the handling of Russia's worst hostage drama because nobody was in charge and special forces were not ready when the shooting started, security analysts said on Monday.
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HOUSTON -- Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and oxygen and water supplies were partly working again Thursday after failing the day before.
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister has blamed negligence on the part of some in the US-led multinational force for Saturday&#39;s massacre of 49 new Iraqi National Guardsmen and their civilian drivers by loyalists of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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On the two-year anniversary of the deadly school seizure by Chechen rebels, a new report claims that government bears its share of responsibility for the massacre
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A British soldier bled to death in Afghanistan because of faulty equipment, compounded by incompetence, according to a military inquiry into the incident
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After the Beslan school slaughter, the Kremlin's handling of the siege comes under fire. Putin backs an inquiry and promises to crack down on the terrorists. What went wrong -- and what's coming next
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MOSCOW Forensic analysis of the remains of 31 militants who seized the public school in Beslan last month has determined that all of them were dependent on drugs, a senior law enforcement official said in a statement reported by Russian news agencies
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev has claimed responsibility for the Beslan school siege, in which more than 320 hostages were killed.
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Video image of hostages sitting below explosives strung from basketball hoops in the gymnasium of a school in Beslan, Russia. Photograph: NTV/AP.
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More than five weeks after hundreds perished in the seizure of School No. 1 by Chechen separatists, Beslan remains a town reeling from grief, shock, rage and disbelief, a town whose suffering seems only compounded by the day.
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A Pentagon commission found that top US military commanders bear some responsibility for abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq because they failed to recognize deteriorating performance
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER HOUSTON - Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and supply of oxygen and water have failed, potentially extending the space shuttle's mission - or cutting it short.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON - Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and oxygen and water supplies were partly working again Thursday after failing the day before.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia  - Eight Russian soldiers and police were killed by rebels in Chechnya within a 24-hour period, and a military helicopter crashed on a flight out of the region, killing two of the three crew members aboard, officials said.
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BESLAN: A senior Russian security official yesterday said that the assault on the school where hundreds of hostages were being held had not been planned.
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Key events in seizure of a school in the town of Beslan in southern Russia. Some times are approximate.
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WHEN it came, the end of the siege at School No1 in the small north Ossetian town of Beslan was the worst possible outcome. It was protracted, chaotic and bloody and a catastrophe not just for the families