BESLAN, Russia -- The city of Beslan in Russia's North Caucasus region of North Ossetia is marking the 20th anniversary of one of the worst terror attacks in Russian ...

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 ...

A Russian prosecutor's statement that Kazakhs may have been involved in the bloody siege in Beslan has prompted an official Kazakh request for clarification. At the same time, Kazakh President ...

More than 1,000 people were held hostage for some 50 hours during the siege - Copyright AFP YURI TUTOV More than 1,000 people were held hostage for some 50 hours ...

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 ...

MOSCOW — Authorities in southern Russia were warned of a possible attack on a school a day before 1,128 hostages were seized at a school in Beslan, but took no preventive measures even though the ...

Chechen terrorists crossed a new line over the weekend, when a hostage-taking at a school in Beslan, in southern Russia, ended in the loss of some 500 lives--nearly half of them young children. The ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the Beslan school siege. On September 1, 2004, armed Chechen rebels took approximately 1,200 children and adults hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, at ...

ROME, February 6. /TASS/. San Marino’s Minister of Labor Alessandro Bevitori has officially nominated the Mothers of Beslan public organization for the Nobel Peace Prize, Ennio Bordato, Italian ...