During the post-war period, Sayyaf retained his training camps, using them for militarily training and indoctrinating new recruits to fight in Islamic-backed conflicts such as Chechnya, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in the Southern Philippines, where his name inspired the Abu Sayyaf group.
A group of Delta Force soldiers, accompanied by a CIA agent (Pollyanna McIntosh), are sent to the Belzan forest in Chechnya in search of a rogue American weapons researcher, Dr. Benton Walsh.
He made thirty trips to places such as East Timor, Bangladesh, Chechnya, Thailand and Iraq to help people in need, particularly children in some of the world’s most devastated areas.
He is reported to have told reporters he would like to go to Chechnya, to fight Islam's oppressors, but was talked out of it by Danish security officials.
Khuchbarov was an ethnic Ingush and native of the village of Galashki in the republic of Ingushetia near the border with Chechnya.
Pomazun claimed said his battalion participated in a series of special operations in Chechnya and killed nearly a thousand people "all the way from Mozdok to Khasavyurt," including crushing them under tanks and beheading women and children in order to intimidate the population, something that he says has since plagued him in his nightmares.
He served as Executive Director of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) between 1993 and 2007, during which period the IHF was engaged inter alia in human rights challenges in the Balkans, in Chechnya, and in Central Asia, and the organization expanded significantly.
In 1998 he first went to Afghanistan where he was reportedly trained at the al-Qaeda Al Farouq training camp, and then in October 1999 on to Chechnya.
From 1999 to 2007, he made over 10 trips to Chechnya and participated in special operations in the areas of the cities of Gudermes and Argun, as well as in the suburbs of Grozny and the Vedeno region.
Andrew Shumack was an American freelance journalist and photographer from Pennsylvania who disappeared during the First Chechen War, a month after he left St. Petersburg for Chechnya, and is presumed dead.
Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya is a book by Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad published in 2008, which gives an account of everyday life in the war-torn Russian Republic of Chechnya.
Barayev and his group, based around the town of Urus-Martan, were linked to a series of high-profile crimes including the notorious murder of six foreign Red Cross employees shot dead in the hospital of Novye Atagi in September 1996, as well as the kidnappings of Yelena Masyuk, a Russian NTV journalist and personal friend of Maskhadov, and Valenti Vlasov, Boris Yeltsin's envoy to Chechnya.
Though Vadalov played no role in the 1999 Dagestan incursion led by Shamil Basayev and Ibn al-Khattab, following Russia's re-invasion of Chechnya that autumn he joined Khattab's Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya.
Maskhadov nominated himself for President of Ichkeria on 3 December 1996, for the January 1997 free democratic presidential and parliamentary elections held in Chechnya under the aegis of the OSCE, running primarily against Shamil Basayev and Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev.
Her other books include One Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal which describes the three months she spent in Iraq in the build-up to the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, and most recently Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya, an account of the time she spent in Chechnya after the war.
The Battle of Dolinskoye (Dolinskoe, Dolinsky), which took place 25 kilometers northwest of the Chechen capital of Grozny, was the first major ground engagement of the First Chechen War.
The Borz (Борз, Chechen for 'wolf') submachine gun is one of a number of low cost weapons produced in Chechnya.
Yuri Budanov, Russian military officer, convicted of crimes in Chechnya
Today it is breaking more ground for the sport of MMA than perhaps any other promotion, scheduling historic events in places like Chechnya, Baghdad and Beirut.
The internal violence in Chechnya peaked on July 16, 1998, when fighting broke out between Maskhadov's National Guard force led by Sulim Yamadayev (who joined pro-Moscow forces in the second war) and militants in the town of Gudermes; over 50 people were reported killed and the state of emergency was declared in Chechnya.
After studies in Algiers, Algeria; Angers, France; and Cairo, Egypt, Giannou went on to begin a surgical career which has taken him to many of the contemporary world's most mediatized conflict zones, including Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia and Somalia.
On assignment for Time magazine during the start of the first war in Chechnya, Cynthia was photographing in the streets of Grozny, the capital of the breakaway republic, when she was killed in a Russian bombing raid.
Gaidar Gadzhiyev was a Russian General and commandant of the Urus-Martan military district in Chechnya, who was killed by a young local woman Ayza Gazuyeva.
It was a site of two raids by Chechen separtists during the Second Chechen War, the Galashki ambush in 2000 (from Chechnya) and the Battle of Galashki in 2002 (from Georgia).
As part of Georgia during this period were part of the modern Karachay-Cherkessia (with cities Teberda and Karachaevsk, which was then called Klukhori) and the highlands of modern Chechnya.
The Grozny-City Clocks are located at the Northwest and Southeast side of the Grozny-City Towers and built in September 2011 and opened on 5 October 2011 on the birthday celebration of Chechnya President Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov in Grozny, Chechnya.
Ibragim "Ibby" Khultygov is a Chechen-Russian politician and paramilitary commander, and a former counter-intelligence and security chief for the separatist government in Chechnya.
As part of its campaign to highlight violations of human rights in Chechnya, jointly with Amnesty International and the International Helsinki Federation, IFCL sponsored screening of documentaries on the Chechen War around the world.
Just the previous spring, Igor Domnikov of Novaya Gazeta had been murdered while covering abuses by the Russian armed forces in Chechnya.
During the First Chechen War, Bagaudtin traveled to Chechnya to organise Wahhabist militant cells.
In 1998 Velijanov attended a military training camp in Chechnya ran by the legendary field commander Khattab.
From 1994 to 2001, he worked for the international humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger, working mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also in Chechnya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Caucasus, Afghanistan and Moscow.
In 2002, he was posted to Moscow as the Telegraphs bureau chief, from where he covered Putin's Russia and various Chechen crises.
In April 2006, Mikhail Babich, another former Prime Minister of Chechnya and then Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Russian State Duma on Defense, called the armed formations of Kadyrov "an absolutely illegal structure".
Gakayev was born on 8 July 1970 in the village of Kalinovskaya, which is located in the Naur district of Chechnya bordering Mozdok, North Ossetia.
In 1998 Liza made her first recording with the song "Motherland", which set words about Chechnya to the tune of "Liberta", a 1980s hit by Italian pop duo Al Bano and Romina Power.
Magomed Khashiev (10 October 1977 – 17 April 2004), also known as "Sokhib" and "Khattab", was the Emir of the Sunzhensky District and a militant in the Russian federal subjects of Ingushetia and Chechnya.
(As a result of the forced deportations of the Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia on February 23, 1944, there has been a large Chechen population living in Kazakhstan.) Her father, Lom-Ali Aidaev, was a well-known singer and composer in Chechnya.
In Chechnya, mass graves containing hundreds of corpses have been uncovered since the beginning of the Chechen wars in 1994.
Public statements indicated that Abu Zubaydah, who was waterboarded during harsh interrogations by the United States, described a man "similar to" Harkat running a guest house in Pakistan that shuttled mujahideen to Chechnya, although he did not use Harkat's name.
The Mozdok–Makhachkala–Kazi Magomed pipeline is a natural gas pipeline from Mozdok in North Ossetia through Chechnya and Dagestan to Azerbaijan.
Procházková's second husband, Ibragim Zyazikov, an Ingushethian from the teip of Murat Zyazikov who worked as security guard for the People in Need organization, was kidnapped in Chechnya in February 2003 and disappeared without trace.
Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya and a former Chechen rebel
In 1997 his father expelled him from the house and he moved to Chechnya, where he became an Avar interpreter of Arab warlord Khattab and the rogue Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev during their abortive Invasion of Dagestan in 1999.
During the First Chechen War as many as 200,000 refugees from Chechnya and neighboring North Ossetia strained Ingushetia's already weak economy and on several occasions, Aushev protested incursions by Russian soldiers, and even threatened to sue the Russian Ministry of Defence for damages inflicted.
Tanya Anisimova was born in the Chechen city of Grozny into a family of scientists: her father Dr. Mikhail Anisimov is a well-known physicist.
I Live Here started out as a book documentary about the stories of refugees and displaced women and children in Burma, Juarez, Chechnya, and Malawi.
A survey, whose results were presented by Henry E. Hale in 2008 at the Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, indicates that the Russian population associates the party with a market economic orientation, opposition to communism, a moderately pro-Western foreign policy and a tough stance on rebellious minority regions like Chechnya.