Three Islamic preachers, Sigauri, Dimiev and Masaev, were kidnapped by Russian troops on the night between September 28-29, 2006 and are now held in one of the secret prisons in Chechnya according to a report from a Chechen group.

Iran said on Sunday a Middle East conference organized by the United States would result in an erosion of Palestinian rights because Washington had shown in the past that it was not an objective mediator.

According to a report for the Kavkaz Center news agency from the Chechen Military Command, a mobile unit of Chechen Mujahideen attacked and destroyed a military convoy of Russians and puppets on a road between the district center of Achkhoi Martan and the Kotai Yurt village on Wednesday, October 17, …