But in 1999, after Mr Putin launched the second Chechen war to restore Russian control over the break away republic, the Kadyrovs changed sides. Akhmad was subsequently installed as the pro ...

To thwart the self-styled Chechen Republic of Ichkeria’s independence ... taking full charge of the Second Chechen War after Yeltsin stepped down and Putin became acting president on December ...

After losing the first and winning the second Chechen War, Russia has consolidated its ... The now pro-Kremlin Chechen Republic has become a state within a state, exporting brutality and silencing ...

Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. Thirty years later and two wars since, Chechnya, ...

Vladimir Putin apologized Saturday after the US and Azerbaijan accused Russia of shooting down a passenger plane, killing 38 ...

Chechnya is a mainly Muslim republic within the Russian Federation. Kadyrov has been a vocal supporter of Moscow’s war and has sent ... show the drone exploding after it flew into a building ...

He has been a vocal supporter of Moscow's war in Ukraine, and his father, Akhmat Kadyrov, was the Chechen president until he was assassinated in 2004. The republic has a complicated and bloody ...

If you had walked the front lines in the early weeks of the war in Ukraine, you might have heard shouts in Ukrainian and Russian, perhaps mingled with voices speaking regional languages such as Buryat ...

had been the barracks of a special police regiment named after his father Akhmad, former Chief Mufti of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Kadyrov Snr, who subsequently became a close ally of ...