The inmates, one of whom wore a headband with the flag used by Islamic State, had taken prison guards hostage with a knife and fire axe Russian special forces ... six hostage takers, one of ...

Russian security forces stormed a detention centre in southern ... citing Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service. It said that the hostage takers had been “liquidated,” with other local ...

One of the inmates at a maximum-security penal colony IK-19 in Russia’s southern Volgograd Region that took the facility's staff hostage ... Special Forces, a unit of the Russian Defense ...

After its bizarre early failures with artillery, Russia is learning to overhaul its effectiveness with drones and civilian ...

Governments around the world denounced the hostage taking ... of Russian troops from Chechnya." Anguished hostage Tatyana Solnyshkina, speaking by mobile telephone, addressed security forces ...

They are effectively taking all of Europe hostage and, apparently ... and prompt actions of the NPP employees, as well as Russian forces that provide comprehensive protection of this facility." ...