BESLAN, Russia -- The city of Beslan in Russia's North Caucasus region of North Ossetia is marking the 20th anniversary of one of the worst terror attacks in Russian ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the Beslan school siege. On September 1, 2004, armed Chechen rebels took approximately 1,200 children and adults hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, at ...

BESLAN, Russia (Reuters) - Mourners lit candles and placed icons on Sunday beneath photographs of the schoolchildren, teachers and parents who died 20 years ago when Islamist gunmen staged the ...

More than 1,000 people were held hostage for some 50 hours during the siege - Copyright AFP YURI TUTOV More than 1,000 people were held hostage for some 50 hours ...

Participants also laid flowers at the Tree of Sorrow and at the monument to officers of the Alfa and Vympel special forces killed during the assault VLADIKAVKAZ, September 4. /TASS/. Around 13,000 ...

BESLAN, Russia, Oct. 13, 2004 -- -- In the Russian Orthodox religion, people believe that when a person dies, the soul lingers near the body for 40 days before it is finally released. Today marks the ...

ROME, February 6. /TASS/. San Marino’s Minister of Labor Alessandro Bevitori has officially nominated the Mothers of Beslan public organization for the Nobel Peace Prize, Ennio Bordato, Italian ...

Chechen terrorists crossed a new line over the weekend, when a hostage-taking at a school in Beslan, in southern Russia, ended in the loss of some 500 lives--nearly half of them young children. The ...