What began as a normal night at a packed Moscow theater turned into one of the most disturbing hostage crises of the modern ...

The powerful gas used to end the Moscow theater siege was probably a top-secret KGB chemical weapon, and some experts hinted yesterday that Russia may have violated international law by... GAS LOOKS ...

A helicopter shot down, a short but intense firefight, an army truck blown up by a remote-controlled mine, a village closed down and then searched, house by house: the war in Chechnya is running its ...

MOSCOW -- A Moscow court on Thursday rejected three lawsuits by six plaintiffs against the city government for moral damages suffered by hostages in the terrorist seizure of a Moscow theater last year ...

The Moscow theater siege was a portent of more terrorism to come, warns Rajan Menon, a Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow specializing in Russia. He argues that the shocking attack shows that ...

The Moscow Theater Siege brought the world to its knees. In this episode, we examine how 40 terrorists seized control of a ...

MOSCOW — Dozens of masked men and women, identified as “suicide commandos” and demanding an end to Russia’s war against Islamic separatists in Chechnya, stormed a crowded Moscow theater during a ...

MOSCOW - Weeping relatives bent over the uniformed body of Col. Konstantin Litvinov and threw handfuls of dirt onto his coffin Tuesday as Russians began to bury the hostages killed during a 58-hour ...

2002-10-31 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- On a day that Russian authorities finally revealed the type of gas used to end last week's deadly Moscow theater siege, Danish authorities arrested a Chechen rebel ...