This Friday, September 1, marks the second anniversary of Russia’s “9/11” — the atrocious seizure of more than 1,128 hostages in a Beslan school, which left more than 330 — most of them children — ...

BESLAN, Russia (Reuters) - Mourners lit candles and placed icons on Sunday beneath photographs of the schoolchildren, teachers and parents who died 20 years ago when Islamist gunmen staged the ...

Participants also laid flowers at the Tree of Sorrow and at the monument to officers of the Alfa and Vympel special forces killed during the assault VLADIKAVKAZ, September 4. /TASS/. Around 13,000 ...

A judge in Southern Russia convicts a Chechen man of taking part in the Beslan school siege two years ago. The assault killed more than 330 people — more than half of them children. Nurpashi Kulayev ...

The first 24 hours of the rescue operation during the Beslan siege were chaotic, according to one FSB official (AFP) 16 December 2005 -- The former head of the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Russia ...

On 1 September 2004 -- the first day of the school year -- armed militants took more than 1,000 people hostage at School No. 1 in the small North Ossetian city of Beslan. The crisis lasted three days ...

BESLAN, Russia — The cemetery plot reserved for the 300 victims, mostly children, of last year's hostage-taking and siege in Beslan fills up a football field. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

A southern Russian court on Friday sentenced the sole surviving Beslan school attacker to life in prison, capping a yearlong trial that survivors and victims' relatives say has left the most essential ...

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MOSCOW, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Campaigners who say Russia bungled the 2004 Beslan school siege have been accused by investigators of beating up court bailiffs and summoned for questioning, activists said ...