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 ...

The Beslan school massacre began on September 1, 2004 when Chechen rebels seized School Number One in the southern Russian city and took more than 1,100 people hostage. It ended 52 hours later in ...

In 2004, a school in Beslan, a small town in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, became the scene of a horrendous terrorist attack by Chechen militants in which over 1,100 people were taken hostage ...

BESLAN, Russia -- Thousands of anguished residents of the small town of Beslan on Saturday marked the anniversary of one of Russia's deadliest terrorist attacks with white doves rising into the air, ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, Dec. 22 -- A parliamentary commission investigating the 2004 Beslan school massacre in southern Russia, which left 331 people dead including 186 children, on Friday brushed aside lingering ...