18:49
AIR FORCE CHIEF REPORTS DROP IN CHECHNYA SORTIES
The Russian Air Force has sharply decreased the number of sorties in Chechnya lately, Air Force commander-in-chief, General of the Army Anatoly Kornukov, told reporters on Sunday. "It couldn't have been otherwise," he insisted. More details...

18:47
RUSSIAN CHIEF OF STAFF SAYS FIRST STAGE OF AFGHAN NORTHERN ALLIANCE'S OPERATION IS OVER
The Northern Alliance has completed the first stage of its offensive on Taliban positions in Afghanistan, General of the Armies Anatoly Kvashnin, Russia's chief of general staff, told reporters Sunday. More details...

18:37
N. ALLIANCE FORCES ENTER BAMIYAN PROVINCE
Forces of Afghanistan's opposition Northern Alliance entered, Sunday afternoon, the northwestern Bamiyan province, Northern Alliance spokesman Ashraf Nadeem told the Saudi Press Agency. More details...

17:52
5 STAND TRIAL FOR TERROR IN S. RUSSIA
Trial is entering the final stage in a terror case heard in the Stavropol Territorial Court, where 5 men have been indicted on terrorism charges. During the session on Monday, the last of the defendants will take the floor for the last word. The judgment is to be pronounced afterwards. More details...

17:28
N. ALLIANCE OVERRUNS 4 AFGHAN PROVINCES, PUSHES WEST
Upon capturing the key city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the Northern Alliance forces went on to overrun four provinces in the north of the country - Samangan, Sara-i-Pol, Faryab, and Uruzgan. More details...

17:20
AFGHAN EMBASSY IN RUSSIA CONFIRMS NORTHERN ALLIANCE OFFENSIVE
Having seized Mazar-i-Sharif, United Front forces are ousting Taliban from the country's northern, western, and eastern districts, according to Ghairat Sakhi, First Secretary of the Afghan embassy to Moscow. More details...

16:54
CHECHEN WARLORD AT LARGE IN GEORGIA
Ruslan Gelayev, a leading Chechen warlord, is apparently holing up in Georgia with the connivance of the country's government, commander of the North Caucasus Military District, Colonel General Gennady Troshev, told reporters on Sunday. More details...

16:47
SEPARATIST LEADERS HATTAB, BASAYEV AND MASKHADOV ARE STILL IN CHECHNYA
According to the information of the Russian military top brass, Chechnya's main militant leaders -- Jordan-born professional terrorist Hattab, and Chechens Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov -- are still in Chechnya, Colonel General Gennady Troshev, the Commander of the North Caucasian Military District, told journalists on Sunday. More details...

16:35
BRITISH MILITARY ALREADY IN AFGHANISTAN
British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon has confirmed in remarks aired by Britain's ITN television on Sunday that UK troops are already operating in the Afghan territory assisting the Northern Alliance. No details on Hoon's statement were forthcoming.

16:32
NORTHERN ALLIANCE FORCES ARE OCCUPYING NEW AREAS WITHOUT TALIBAN RESISTANCE
North Alliance forces are occupying new areas in Afghanistan's north facing no resistance by Taliban. An alliance spokesman told the Saudi Press Agency that the districts of Argi and Imam Seid on the Amudarya river had been seized, along with the provinces of Jowazjan and Zabul. More details...

16:14
AFGHAN OPPOSITION POISED FOR WESTERN OFFENSIVE
Opposition Northern Alliance troops are poised to launch an offensive against Taliban forces in the western city of Qala-i-Nau in the Afghan province of Badghis, Northern Alliance spokesman in the Western front, Sayed Naseer Mohammad, announced. More details...

13:44
CHIEF OF RUSSIA'S GENERAL STAFF SAYS OSAMA BIN LADEN IS NOW IN AFGHANISTAN
Osama bin Laden is somewhere in Afghanistan at this moment, told journalists Army General Anatoly Kvashnin, who heads the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. More details...

12:26
VLADIMIR PUTIN: COSTS OF MILITARY-AND-TECHNICAL AID RUSSIA LENDS TO THE NORTHERN ALLIANCE AMOUNT TO TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
The costs of military-and-technical aid Russia lends to Afghanistan's Northern Alliance amount to tens of millions of dollars, Russian President Vladimir Putin told chief correspondents of leading US media in the Kremlin on Saturday. More details...

16:10
CHECHEN ADMINISTRATION HEAD REFUTES MEDIA REPORTS ON RADIATION SOURCES
Chechen administration head Akhmad Kadyrov flatly refuted reports by some mass media on discovery near the village of Chir-Yurt of radiation sources at a Saturday press conference devoted to this issue. More details...

14:47
LOSSES OF SERVICEMEN IN CHECHNYA REDUCE THREE-FOLD
The casualties among servicemen in Chechnya have decreased three-fold as compared to the year of 2000, Colonel-General Vyacheslav Tikhomirov, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Interior troops, told the families of those who died on combat duty. More details...

14:32
TWO TERROR ACTS PREVENTED IN GROZNY
Russian law-enforcers have prevented two terrorist acts in Grozny. Two land mines were defused in the Chechen capital on November 9. The first land mine was planted on a side-road near the central market. The other one was found near the police station in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny. More details...

14:31
YUGOSLAV AND MACEDONIAN PRESIDENTS AGREE JOINT FIGHT AGAINST MILILTANTS
The presidents of Yugoslavia and Macedonia are launching a joint struggle against ethnic Albanian militants. The two leaders promise defence co-operation and co-ordinated security efforts along their borders More details...

14:16
EXPLOSION GOES OFF AT MARKET IN VLADIKAVKAZ
The explosion at the Faloi clothing market in Vladikavkaz (the Northern Ossetia, a North Caucasian republic within Russia) claimed 4 lives and left 43 wounded on November 10. The data was obtained at 1:15 p.m. Moscow time. The Russian Emergencies Ministry reported that all the wounded had been rushed to the republican hospital in Vladikavkaz. More details...

13:47
FEDERAL UNITS ENGAGE GANG IN CHECHNYA
A clash between a reconnaissance unit of the Russian Interior Force with a 40-strong gang of Chechen militants has left 12 fighters dead and 17 imprisoned. The combat occurred near Argun on November 9. More details...

19:32
NINE CHECHEN FIGHTERS KILLED, 15 INJURED IN ARGUN FIGHTING
Nine Chechen fighters have been killed and 15 wounded in a fighting against federal forces in Argun, reports the united press-centre of the FSB, defence and interior ministries More details...

16:34
GEORGIA CALLS FOR TURKEY'S INVOLVEMENT AS PEACE-KEEPER IN ABKHAZIA
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze has spoken in favour of Turkey's participation in a peace-keeping operation in Abkhazia when conferring with his Turkish counterpart Ahmed Necdet Sezer, now on an official visit in Georgia More details...

16:21
MOSCOW THINKS CLOSING BASES IN ABKHAZIA GOOD FOR RELATIONS WITH GEORGIA
Moscow thinks that if Russia fulfils its obligations assumed in Stambul, it will improve relations between Russia and Georgia, sources in the Information and Press Department of the Foreign Ministry said More details...

15:02
UNSUCCESSFUL ASSASSINATION ON AKHMAD KADYROV LEAVES FOUR MILITANTS DEAD
A shoot out in the Chechen town of Argun has left four militants dead. The clash occurred on Tuesday following the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Akhmad Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Administration, Ruslan Alkhanov, the Kadyrov's security chief, was quoted as saying on Friday. More details...

13:58
SIX MILITANTS KILLED IN CHECHNYA
Six militants were killed in Chechnya over the past 24 hours. According to the provisional press center of the Russian interior ministry to the North Caucasus, a group of five people armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a shell was spotted by police outside the district center of Shali and ordered to lay down weapons. More details...

13:53
FOREIGN ISLAMIC STRUCTURES KEEP LENDING ASSISTANCE TO CHECHEN MILITANTS
According to a source in Russian secret services, foreign structures using Islamic slogans keep lending assistance to Chechen militant units to help them carry on their terrorist and subversive activities. More details...

11:56
SERGEI BORISOV: A “PLOT THEORY” LOOKED AT IN MIDDLE EAST
The USA is trying hard to win the Moslems over, but it seems to fail so far. Although Americans believe that Osama bin Laden was the chief mastermind behind the terrorist attacks, many in the Islamic world are inclined to a different point of view. According to the Christian Science Monitor, the “Israeli plot theory” has become most popular with Islamic countries. More details...

11:24
URANIUM SOLD IN TURKEY
Two men arrested in Istanbul for selling weapons-grade uranium claim the source was a Russian. More details...

10:58
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY DENIES ALLEGATIONS THAT PUTIN PLANS TO VISIT MIDDLE EAST
The Russian Foreign Ministry has issued an official statement in response to reports of foreign media that Russian President Vladimir Putin was going to visit soon a number of Middle East countries, including Iraq. According to the document, these reports "distort the essence of the statements Russian Ambassador to Jordan made in an interview with the Al-Arab Al-Yaoum newspaper." More details...

21:00
RUSSIA WARNS GEORGIA: THE TIMES OF JOKES IS UP
One of the leaders of the Chechen terrorists, Ruslan Gelayev, who was seriously wounded in October of the current year is being currently treated in one of the hospitals of Georgia More details...

20:50
DMITRI LITVINOVICH: “ARAB” DOES NOT MEAN “TERRORIST”
America calls for freezing terrorist bank accounts all over the world. But not all countries agree with the American interpretation of terrorism as a global phenomenon. Lebanon, for example, categorically opposes including the Hezbollah organization the in the list. More details...