"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 ...

MOSCOW, Sept. 1 -- The people of the southern Russian town of Beslan began three days of remembrance Thursday to mark the anniversary of a school siege by separatist fighters that left 331 people dead ...

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 ...

Nothing can justify the senseless slaughter of innocent men, women and children. Too often, explanations and excuses dominate public discourse and gloss over the tragedy itself. While young life is ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GRAPHIC IMAGES: On the 10th anniversary of a school siege in Russia's Beslan, that killed more than 330 people, mothers of victims ...

MOSCOW -- Two years ago the new school term began in horror for the town of Beslan in North Ossetia. Chechen terrorists seized School Number One, and in the tragic events that followed, more than 330 ...

Algeria said Saturday that at least 19 hostages and 29 militants have died in a standoff between Islamists who stormed a natural gas plant deep in the Sahara, and special forces trying to drive them ...

Piercing wails cut through the air as grief-stricken residents of this southern Russian town held a moment of silence Saturday, a year to the day after hundreds of their relatives and neighbors died ...

The Southern Russian community of Beslan was left with an enormous loss after the attack by insurgents on a school that left hundreds of people dead, most of them children. But a group called The ...

“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 ...

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 — ...