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Three alleged organisers of the March suicide bombings on the Moscow metro have been killed after resisting arrest, Russian officials say. It was not immediately clear when or where the killings happened. All those involved in the bombings have now been identified, officials said. Russian leaders previously warned that the masterminds of the attacks, which killed 40 people, would be "destroyed". Two young women from Dagestan were identified as carrying out the attacks. The 29 March bombings targeted two of the Moscow metro's commuter trains. The three alleged planners died during "an attempt to detain three members of an illegal...

The March 29, 2010, martyr-bombings in the two Moscow Metro stations served as a reminder of the escalating and evolving jihadist surge into Russia’s soft underbelly. The bombing took place at peak rush hour. The first martyr-bomber detonated herself at 7:56am in the Lubyanka station which serves the Kremlin’s bureaucracy. The second martyr-bomber detonated herself at 8:37am in the Park Kulturi station, a connection and transfer station from the Ring Line leading to Moscow’s center. Both martyr-bombers detonated themselves inside train cars just as the doors were opened to let passengers in and out. At the time of writing, the...

PRAGUE, August 25, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Russian investigators probing terrorism cases in the North Caucasus have noted a growing number of ethnic Slavs among the perpetuators of such acts. The pro-Kremlin daily "Komsomolskaya pravda" published on August 16-19 an investigative report claiming that more than half the members of a recently liquidated terrorist group in Karachayevo-Cherkessia were Russians or Ukrainians. Terrrorist Attacks Across Russia Based on the testimony of three surviving members of the group, called Karachai Jamaat, the investigation believes the network was responsible for three explosions in Krasnodar in August 2003, in which three people were killed and...

Monday, April 19, 2004 Top Arab militant in Chechnya killed: Arab TV DUBAI: Arab television station Al Arabiya said on Sunday that the leader of Arab fighters in Chechnya, Saudi-born Abu al-Waleed al-Ghamdi, had been killed in the rebel Russian region. An official at Dubai-based Al Arabiya said the channel received the news from sources close to Ghamdi’s family in Saudi Arabia who declined to give any details except that the family was receiving condolences. Abu al-Waleed is said by the Kremlin to be among those behind February’s bombing in Moscow. In March, Arab television channel Al Jazeera broadcast videotape...

<p>WASHINGTON - American law enforcement officials are investigating last year's deadly takeover of a Moscow theater by Chechen rebels to determine whether al-Qaida was involved and whether criminal charges should be brought in the United States, officials said.</p> <p>The death of an American citizen from Oklahoma City who was held hostage in the attack in October 2002 has allowed federal prosecutors to consider charges in the United States against Chechen organizers who they suspect may be linked to al-Qaida, officials said.</p>

Russia's War on Terror took a bloody turn for the worse earlier this month when terrorists from the breakaway republic of Chechnya staged two suicide attacks in Moscow. It was the first time suicide bombings, usually associated with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reached Russian territory proper. But, unlike in the Middle East where most suicide bombers are Palestinian men, Chechen women were the perpetrators of the Moscow attacks. In the first incident, two Chechen females, one only 20-years-old, strapped explosive belts containing metal pieces around their waists and went to an outdoor rock concert. There, they detonated their deadly packages fifteen...

Chechnya: Russian Forces Kill Rebel Commander Moscow, 12 July 2003 (RFE/RL) -- The Russian military said today troops killed a leading Chechen rebel military commander responsible for training female suicide bombers. Military spokesman Ilya Shabalkin said 21-year-old Aslan Gasayev was killed during a special forces operation in the village of Alkhan-Kala. Authorities were investigating whether Gasayev had played a role in a double suicide bombing at a rock concert in Moscow last week and in this week's attempted bombing of a restaurant in the capital. Three of Gasayev's bodyguards were also killed. Earlier today a land mine blast in the...

This soldier Maj. Georgy Trofimov died today doing his job. He was vaporized by a bomb. He died protecting his homeland. That was his job. Protect his homeland. There are many of us who will go through life never having to directly need people like this hero who died yesterday. These people are in every place in the world and they quietly protect their countrymen whenever they can. It is times like these I like to take pause and salute these people who are all around me. I would like to request that when you pray or toast a drink(I...

Days after a deadly suicide blast which killed 14 people at a weekend rock show, Moscow was once again gripped by terrorism fears as an explosive device went off near a restaurant in downtown Moscow early today, killing an FSB state security service expert who sought to disarm it. According to police sources cited by Interfax, a woman tried to bring a rucksack with what appeared to be an explosive device into a restaurant on Tverskaya-Yamskaya, Moscow's main thoroughfare, and tried to flee when the restaurant's security attempted to search the rucksack. The woman was reportedly apprehended and the rucksack...

No one can justify the actions of those who send out suicide bombers to kill innocent civilians. The two women who struck at the rock festival in Tushino on Saturday may or may not have been driven by revenge, as was the widow of Chechen warlord Arbi Barayev, who joined the group that seized the Dubrovka theater last October. Close relatives of rebels killed in fighting or civilians abused by federal servicemen in Chechnya are the easiest prey for those who plan such attacks. The attackers die while the organizers go on to recruit more volunteers to die on the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged to root out Chechen separatists, following the suicide bombings at a Moscow rock festival on Saturday which killed 15 people. "They must be dug up out of their basements and caves, where they are still hiding, and destroyed," Russian media quoted Mr Putin as saying. He added that the methods used indicated that rebel groups were an integral part of international terrorist groups. The BBC's Nikolay Gorshkov in Moscow says Mr Putin's strong words are reminiscent of a statement in 1999 as prime minister in which he vowed to wipe out rebels "even in...

Savages July 5th, like virtually every other day in recent memory, has brought multiple terrorist outrages. In Russia, a pair of Muslim suicide bombers killed at least sixteen people. In Iraq, Islamists set off a bomb which killed seven police recruits. Barely a day on this Earth goes by where some Islamic extremists do not murder at least a few civilians. There is a reason for this: the Islamists have discovered the terror works because the leaders in most of the West are too irresolute to fully comprehend the fact that terror can only be fought with terror. It is...

By SARAH KARUSH MOSCOW (AP) - Two women strapped with explosives blew themselves up at a crowded outdoor rock festival Saturday, killing at least 16 people, officials and media said. The attack revived fears that rebels are intent on bringing the Chechen war to the Russian capital. The first blast went off at one of the entrances to the festival at the Tushino airfield in suburban Moscow as the Russian band Crematorium played for an estimated 40,000 people. Another went off about 10 minutes later as spectators exited through another gate. Moscow city police spokesman Valery Gribakin said 14 people...

MOSCOW. July 5 (Interfax) - The death toll from the blasts during a rock festival in Moscow has reached 15 people, policemen working at the site reported.

MOSCOW - Two women suicide bombers blew themselves up at a giant rock festival in suburban Moscow on Saturday, killing at least 16 people, Russian officials said. The interior minister said Chechen rebels may have been beind the attack.

MOSCOW - A series of explosions, including one apparently set off by a woman suicide bomber, shook a rock festival on Moscow's outskirts Saturday, killing at least 13 people. The city prosecutor's office declared the blasts to be terrorism, the Interfax news agency reported. The first blast took place after guards stopped a woman at the entrance to the festival and she detonated an explosives-packed belt, Interfax and the ITAR-Tass news agency said, citing law-enforcement sources. Some 40,000 spectators had gathered for the festival at the Tushino airfield in northwest Moscow when the first blast went off. Interfax reported a...

At least 20 people died, and many more were seriously injured after two female suicide bombers blew themselves up at a rock concert being held at a Moscow airfield on Saturday, news agencies reported. Meanwhile, a new explosion hit the city, agencies are quoting security officials as saying. The new explosion comes less than two hours after the concert blast. However, it has not been confirmed by the Emergencies Ministry. Three explosions hit the Tushino airfield in north-west Moscow where around 40,000 people had gathered to celebrate the Krylya (wings) festival -- a popular summer event for young music fans...

15 Reported Killed at Moscow Rock Fest MOSCOW - At least 15 people were killed Saturday afternoon when explosions that police blamed initially on terrorists roared through the area around a rock festival on Moscow's outskirts, news reports said. The Interfax and ITAR-Tass news agencies both cited unnamed law-enforcement sources as saying the first blast took place after guards stopped a woman at the entrance to the festival and she detonated an explosives-packed belt. Interfax put the death toll at 15, while ITAR-Tass said at least 20 had been killed. Moscow police and the emergency situations ministry could not immediately...