Borders Shut After Russia School Standoff
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BESLAN, Russia - President Vladimir Putin ordered the borders of North Ossetia closed Saturday as security forces searched the southern region for militants who escaped the Russian storming of a school where they had held hundreds of people hostage, many who fled the building under fire. Officials said at least 250 people were killed, mostly children...
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Armed terrorists seized a school in Russia&#39;s North Ossetia region, bordering Chechnya, Wednesday, taking hundreds of hostages including some 200 children.
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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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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin closes North Ossetia's borders in the wake of a bloody school siege which claimed 250 lives.
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Russia warned on Friday that its plans to close military bases in Georgia were in doubt and Georgia claimed Russia was moving troops near their shared border, as relations between the countries deteriorated in one of their worst crises since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin on Tuesday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.
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BESLAN, Russia Sept. 15, 2004 - Two weeks after heavily armed militants took more than 1,200 hostages in a school in southern Russia, students in this grief-stricken town returned to classes accompanied
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MOSCOW  - Attackers wearing suicide-bomb belts seized a school in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday, taking hostage about 400 people - half of them children - and threatening to blow up the building. At least two people were killed, one of them a parent who resisted an attacker.
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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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MOSCOW -- Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin yesterday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.
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BESLAN, Russia - Commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds of hostages had been held for three days, and dozens of hostages fled the building, some bloodied and screaming.    Exchanges of gunfire rang out and a large plume of smoke rose over the school as troops clashed with the militants...
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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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Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his authoritarian ally Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko closed ranks in Minsk on Friday against US plans for an anti-missile shield in central Europe.
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The three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building. Hostages fled in terror, many of them children who were half-naked and covered in blood. Officials estimated the death toll at more than 200.
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The British government's cultural arm, caught in a political row between London and Moscow, said on Thursday its Russian regional offices had halted work because local staff were being interviewed by Russia's security service.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Russia warned yesterday that its plans to close military bases in Georgia were in doubt, and Georgia said Russia was moving troops near their shared border, as relations between the countries deteriorated in one of their worst crises since the collapse of the Soviet Union.