A suicide truck-bomb attack kills at least 60 at a government compound in northern Chechnya.

There the refugees will be processed and sent to two tent cities at Znamenskoye in northern Chechnya, which the military is rushing to complete.

Russian troops advanced into northern Chechnya this month, and they have massed along the Terek River.

In January, another Mi-8 crashed in northern Chechnya, killing 14, among them 11 officials.

Russia will demand security from Islamic terrorism, including a buffer zone in northern Chechnya manned by Russian troops.

He was killed in Tolstoy-Yurt, a village in northern Chechnya, in March 2005.

At first, Mr. Koshman focused on northern Chechnya, which is generally sympathetic to the Russian presence.

The jail at Chernokozovo in northern Chechnya is packed with 1,000 prisoners, local residents said today.

A truck loaded with explosives blew up near a government complex in northern Chechnya today in what officials said was a suicidal terrorist attack.

When Russian bombs rained down on Grozny last fall, the city's only orphanage moved to this small town in northern Chechnya.