Chechen rebel claims school siege
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claims responsibility for the Beslan siege in which more than 320 hostages died.
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Chechnya&#39;s rebel leader says militant Shamil Basayev will go on trial for masterminding the hostage siege in Beslan after fighting in the breakaway Russian republic comes to an end.
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BESLAN, Russia - Attackers wrapped in suicide-bomb belts raided a school in a region bordering Chechnya, seizing up to 400 hostages - including scores of students welcoming the new school year - and threatening to kill captives or blow up the building if it was stormed by encircling Russian troops.    Authorities established contact with the hostage-takers hours after the raid Wednesday, which officials said left at least two people dead in the latest assault in a country the defense minister said has been challenged by a declaration of terrorist war...
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Heavily armed insurgents seized a school in southern Russia and threatened to kill scores of schoolchildren, parents and teachers.
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The Chechen warlord who is suspected by Russian officials of masterminding the hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia threatened earlier in the summer to launch new attacks to avenge the killing of a Chechen rebel leader.
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Attackers wrapped in suicide-bomb belts raided a school in a region bordering Chechnya, seizing up to 400 hostages â-ncluding scores of students welcoming the
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Chechnya&#39;s rebel leader said on Friday that warlord Shamil Basayev would go on trial for the mass hostage-seizing at a Russian school that ended with more than 320 people being killed, half of them children.
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MOSCOW -- Attackers who stormed a Russian school near the Chechen border have reportedly released about 15 students but continue to hold hundreds of hostages.
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev has claimed responsibility for the deadly school hostage taking in southern Russia, according to a letter posted on a rebel website.
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Chechnya's feared warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for the deadly school hostage taking in southern Russia that killed more than 330 people.
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MOSCOW -- In an Internet posting, a Chechen warlord with a $10 million bounty on his head has apparently claimed responsibility for the Beslan school siege and promised more attacks on Russian civilians if Chechnya is not granted independence.
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MOSCOW  - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that Chechen rebel warlord Shamil Basayev directed the hostage-taking raid on a school in southern Russia last week.
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BESLAN, Russia - Militants wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a southern Russian school in a region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, taking hundreds of hostages - many of them children - and threatening to blow up the building if police storm it. As least two people have been reported killed, including a school parent...
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Chechnya's most notorious warlord Shamil Basayev has claimed responsibility for the deadly school hostage taking in southern Russia, according to a letter posted on a rebel website.
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The main commander of the guerrillas who seized a school in southern Russia last week shot one of his own men for balking at taking children hostage and later blew up two
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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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Chechnya's rebel leader said on Friday  that warlord Shamil Basayev would go on trial for the mass  hostage-seizing at a Russian school that ended with more than  320 people being killed, half of them children.