Contact Made With Hostage-Takers in Russia
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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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MOSCOW - Militants released 26 women and children Thursday from the school in southern Russia where they are holding more than 350 hostages, the rescue operation's headquarters said.    Lev Dzugayev, an aide to the North Ossetian president, announced the release of three women and three infants...
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Fifteen children have been allowed to leave a school at the centre of a hostage crisis in Russia, according to media reports. Armed men and women have occupied the school in the Russian region of North Ossetia.
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Russia&#39;s Federal Security Service has offered a $10 million reward for information that would help &quot;neutralize&quot; two Chechen rebel leaders it accuses of being behind last week&#39;s deadly school hostage crisis.
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Terrorists holding 354 hostages at a school in southern Russia released some women and their children soon after talks to end the crisis resumed, a spokesman for the North Ossetian government said.
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MOSCOW. Sept 11 (Interfax) - The raid on a school in North Ossetia&#39;s Beslan, in which hundreds of people, including children, were taken hostage, was organized by notorious Chechen guerilla leader Shamil Basayev
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MOSCOW -- Two days after the bloody end of a hostage crisis left more than 300 people dead, the identity of the attackers who seized a school in the ethnic patchwork of Russia&#39;s North Caucasus region remained uncertain yesterday.
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MOSCOW - The militants who raided a school in southern Russia last week were led by a man dubbed the Colonel, who enforced obedience by killing three fellow attackers - two by detonating the explosives they had strapped to their bodies.    Two days later, the attackers were moving the explosives they rigged around the gym where hundreds of hostages were held, and a bomb went off accidentally...
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Russia&#39;s ambassador to Nigeria has confirmed that six people kidnapped on Sunday in the troubled southeast of the west African country are Russian nationals working for an aluminium company.
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A wounded Russia threatened Wednesday to strike against terrorists &quot;in any region of the world,&quot; offered a $10 million reward for information leading to the killing or capture
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MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia was in shock Wednesday as an armed group took more than 200 people hostage at a school near Chechnya just hours after a suicide bomber killed 11 people and injured dozens outside a busy Moscow subway station.
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JERUSALEM - Israel has sent intelligence officers to Russia and is hosting at least two senior Russian officers in Tel Aviv - quietly moving to upgrade anti-terror cooperation with Moscow in the wake of a series of devastating attacks in Russia, officials told The Associated Press.    The Israeli moves come as President Vladimir Putin revamps Russia's anti-terrorism capabilities after a school seizure by separatists in southern Russia ended with the deaths of at least 330 hostages, including many children...
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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 police forced three inmate hostage-takers to release their 15 captives unharmed Monday after an hours-long standoff at a pretrial detention center in southeast Moscow, said Interfax news agency, quoting prison system director Yuri Kalinin.
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High-ranking military officials helped the Beslan school hostage-takers, Russian investigators say.
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The Russia government has offered a $10  million reward for information to help it hunt down Chechen  rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov, accused by  Moscow of being behind last week's school siege, news agencies  reported on Wednesday.
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Russia offered a $10 million reward on Wednesday for information to help it hunt down Chechen rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov, whom it accuses of being behind last week&#39;s deadly school siege.