In recent weeks Chechen guerrillas have staged effective counterattacks and even managed to retake some areas from Russian control.

Chechen guerrillas mostly live at home and wait for orders to filter down from General Maskhadov.

The journalist should be grateful that he is not a Chechen guerrilla.

The first Chechen guerrillas began arriving here in 1999, as the second Chechen war got under way.

Russian officials denied that but accused Georgia of harboring Chechen guerrillas.

This "pacification" has killed many Chechen guerrillas and civilians and has turned most of the survivors into refugees.

The Chechen guerrilla leaders accused of the attacks deny the charge.

But he claims that he killed her in a fit of rage because she had been identified as a sniper for Chechen guerrillas.

A Chechen guerrilla, Adam Vodayev, passed by, glancing over at the bodies.

June 25 - Eight Russian soldiers and one police officer have been killed in clashes with Chechen guerrillas, who themselves lost two men.