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Kadyrov (center) and other Chechen top commanders at the Dinamo stadium in Grozny, Russia/ AP File Photo/ Musa Sadulayev

Reports: Russia Sent Chechen Forces to Syria with Claim to Protect Hmeimim Base

by Taha Abed alWahed | Dec 9, 2016 | World

Moscow – Under the claim of protecting its air base in the Hmeimim airport in Syria’s Latakia province, Russian newspaper quoted sources at the Defense Ministry saying Moscow has decided to dispatch two units of the Vostok and Zapad military battalions to Syria....

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Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attends news conference in Helsinki, Finland in this April 6, 2016 file photo. REUTERS/Markku Ulander/Lehtikuva

Turkey Shells ISIS Targets in Syria, Arrests Russian Agents

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 13, 2016 | Middle East

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the Turkish military struck targets from the ISIS terrorist organization in Syria on Wednesday in retaliation after four rockets that hit the southeastern Turkish border town of Kilis for the third straight day on Wednesday....

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Senior Islamic State leader, Abu Omar al-Shishani, also known as Omar the Chechen. REUTERS/US. Department of State

US Confirms Death of ISIS Leader Al-Shishani

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 15, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

The United States has confirmed that top ISIS commander and feared ethnic Chechen jihadi fighter Omar al-Shishani has died of wounds suffered in a U.S. airstrike in Syria, a senior Iraqi intelligence official and the head of a Syrian activist group said Tuesday....

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Three men, from the left: Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, Shagid Gubashev and Khamzad Bakhaev suspected of involvement in the killing of Boris Nemtsov sit in a court room in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, March 8, 2015. (AP)

Two charged with Nemtsov killing include former Chechen policeman

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 9, 2015 | World

Moscow, Reuters—Russian authorities said on Sunday they had charged two men over the killing of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov and said one of them was a former senior policeman from the mainly Muslim region of Chechnya who had confessed to involvement in the crime. The...