An apparent accidental explosion rattled the nerves of residents in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz, in North Ossetia, on Saturday, just two days after a deadly attack at a city market, Russian media reported.
North Ossetia will observe a day of national mourning Friday to remember the victims of a car bombing that killed at least 17 people and wounded up to 123 others.
People walk around dazed and bloody after a car exploded in Vladikavkaz, Russia, killing several people. (No audio)
A car bomb exploded Thursday in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, killing at least 17 people -- including an 18-month-old baby -- and wounding up to 123 others, local health officials said.
Two police officers were killed and three other people injured Tuesday when a man blew himself up near a police checkpoint in North Ossetia, the Russian Prosecutor's Office said.
Russian officials suspect Chechen separatists in the deadly bombings that rocked two subway stations in central Moscow on Monday, highlighting a longstanding threat to the country's stability.
The mayor of the capital of Russia's North Ossetia region was killed Wednesday when his car came under gunfire, officials said.
Russian authorities said Friday that the death toll from the North Ossetian suicide blast now stands at 12 -- and investigators believe that the attacker may have been female.
At least 12 people were killed Saturday in an earthquake in Russia's Chechnya region, Russian news agencies reported.
The U.N. refugee agency said Thursday that the number of people uprooted by the conflict in Georgia is approaching at least 115,000.
Rescue workers check on survivors in destroyed areas in Georgia.
Reporter John Wendle travels with Moscow's forces, as accusations fly that war operations continue in Georgia
The number of people displaced by the warfare in Georgia is approaching 100,000 and the figure could rise, the U.N. refugee agency said Monday.
Georgia's president says his country is facing a "large scale" military intervention. Journalist Elene Gotsadze explains.
On Scene: At a Russian recruitment center in North Ossetia, soldiers of all ages are eager to join the cause
The only hostage-taker captured alive following the Beslan school massacre that left more than 300 people dead -- most of them children -- is guilty of terrorism and other charges, a judge has said.
Gas has started flowing to Georgia after an explosion shut off supplies from Russia, which was accused by Georgian officials of deliberately triggering an energy crisis in its small ex-Soviet neighbor.
Russian law enforcement officials allegedly helped terrorists to carry out last September's school massacre in Beslan, Russia, that left 344 people dead, according to the head of a special parliamentary commission.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security sent a bulletin to local law enforcement and homeland security officials Wednesday advising schools how to stop a terrorist takeover similar to that of a Russian school in North Ossetia last month.
A Chechen rebel leader is vowing to bring to justice warlord Shamil Basayev over the Beslan school hostage-taking that ended with the deaths of more than 300 people, according to a posting on a Chechen rebel Web site.
President Vladimir Putin has agreed to a parliamentary investigation in an apparent response to public criticism over last week's deadly school hostage siege.
Russia has offered $10 million for information that helps "neutralize" two Chechen rebel leaders, and a military official said Moscow was prepared to strike at terrorists around the world.
A group of 32 terrorists hid in a nearby forest before storming the school in southern Russia last week, according to new details released by Russia's prosecutor-general.
Chilling video from inside the Russian school seized by terrorists last week shows a first-hand glimpse of the horror inside, with hundreds of people huddled in the gymnasium as masked gunmen string up explosives.
Russian state-run television says the government has a man in custody who was part of the group responsible for the deadly school siege in Beslan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the hostage massacre in Beslan an attack on the entire country and made a surprising admission of weakness in the face of terrorism.
The death toll in the Russian hostage crisis has climbed beyond 350 as President Vladimir Putin denounced the massacre as "an attack on our country."
The operation to end the school hostage crisis in Russia is over, an emergency official said late Friday, but more than 200 people have died.
At least 26 women and children have been freed by militants holding hundreds more people hostage at a school in southern Russia, Interfax news agency Interfax reports.
The new wave of violence that has beset Russia this week has yet again highlighted a growing militant threat -- the so-called "black widows."
At least three Georgian servicemen have been killed and seven wounded in rebel South Ossetia as the central government in Tbilisi tries to bring the breakaway ethnic region back under government control.
The following are some of the major bomb attacks in, near or linked with Chechnya since fighting resumed between Russian forces and Chechen rebels in 1999:
An American reporter who was briefly unaccounted for near Russia's rebel Chechnya region has been found, the news group said.
The Moscow metro blast is feared to be the latest in a series of terrorist attacks in Russia that have killed hundreds of people. Here is a timeline of the most significant strikes since 1999:
Two people have been killed in the second deadly blast in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz in three days, according to the Emergencies Ministry.
A car parked near an administrative building in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz exploded, killing at least two people.
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