Four young men from the Chechen village of Kurchaloi suspected of an arson attack on the mausoleum of a Sufi saint are being subjected to organized vilification by local residents at the behest of ...

In the war-ravaged Russian republic of Chechnya, the local government is pouring money into the construction of mosques and other Islamic institutions. Despite Russian law that declares a separation ...

* Kadyrov seen as espousing sharia law in Chechnya * Encroachment of sharia could fuel separatism By Amie Ferris-Rotman MOSCOW, Russia, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Aspects of sharia law imposed in Muslim ...

Maskhadov, too, at 53, was killed in Chechnya in 2005 by the successor to the Soviet KGB, the FSB or Federal Security Service. It was a chaotic and dangerous time for the competing Chechen leaders.

EVER since two Chechen brothers were implicated in the Boston bombings, people have been thumbing through atlases and history books to see what, if anything, is distinctive about Islam on Russia's ...

They're an ethnic group in the Caucasus region that has been fighting for independence from Russia for four centuries. Most Chechens are Sunni Muslims, many of whom practice in the mystical Sufi ...

What are the roots of the conflict? The bloodshed goes back as far as 1722, when Muslim tribesmen began fighting troops sent by the czar. A Muslim cleric, Sheikh Mansur, declared holy war on the czar ...