“I expected the death penalty, and it is not right he was sentenced to life in prison,” Rita Sidakova, a leader of the group Mothers of Beslan, said in an Associated Press report. “He is guilty of the ...

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 ...

In T-shirts, jeans and sneakers, the children chowing down on kosher chicken in a brightly decorated dining hall looked like kids at any other Jewish summer camp. They clowned a little, linked arms ...

Woman mourn today at the grave of a victim of the siege (epa) MOSCOW, September 1, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Beslan today marked the second anniversary of the start of the school siege that took the lives of ...

The measure is part of a reform package put forward by President Putin to boost security after the Beslan school siege.

This next series of articles will cover the terrorist attack that occurred at the Beslan Middle School in Russia from September 1 to September 3, 2004. While this attack is not considered an active ...

(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 ...

Russian prosecutors found no mistakes in the authorities’ handling of the Beslan school siege in southern Russia, the official leading the probe said Tuesday. A total of 331 people died in the tragedy ...

The sole known survivor from the militant group that seized a school last September in the southern Russian town of Beslan, in a raid that left more than 330 hostages dead, went on trial Tuesday in a ...