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 ...

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia – Anguished relatives of children killed in a school siege a year ago said Wednesday the government has failed to learn from the tragedy and they warned persistent corruption has ...

The name Beslan remains synonymous with horror. It is the name of the southern Russian town where a school siege in 2004 ended with the deaths of more than 300 hostages - half of them children. Yet ...

"The Beslan attack took place against a backdrop of five years of widespread, persistent, and largely unpunished human rights violations by Russian troops against civilians in Chechnya as well as ...

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The version of the Beslan parents was supported by the findings of a commission of the North Ossetian parliament. In a report released on November 29, 2005, the commission concluded that the first ...

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 ...

Dariya Fadeeva of Russia wants to resume her education at a school in America. “This is a great country,” the star of a new Showtime documentary, “Three Days in September,” said. “When I went to ...

Five years have passed since pro-Chechen terrorists seized School No. 1 in Beslan, a city in the North Caucasus, provoking a hostage crisis that ended in the massacre of 146 adults and 186 children.

A surviving member of the ruthless gang of killers who seized a school and murdered hundreds has suddenly become the face of terrorism in Russia. Nur-Pashi Kulayev, looking like a caged wild animal ...

“I expected the death penalty, and it is not right he was sentenced to life in prison,” Rita Sidakova, a leader of the group Mothers of Beslan, said in an Associated Press report. “He is guilty of the ...

MOSCOW — The only attacker known to have survived the 2004 Beslan school siege, which ended with the deaths of 331 hostages, was convicted of murder Friday and sentenced to life imprisonment. The ...