View CNN’s Fast Facts to learn more about the Beslan School Siege in Russia which resulted in 334 deaths. ... Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for the attack.

Shamil Basaev, the Chechen terrorist leader who planned the Beslan attack and was killed on July 10, 2006, in a letter entitled, "We have a lot to tell about Beslan ...

On the first day of school in 2004, a Chechen terrorist group struck the Russian town of Beslan. Targeting children, they took more than eleven hundred hostages. The attack represented a ...

In April 2017, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in a case brought by victims of the Beslan attack and their families that the Russian authorities’ response to the Beslan hostage-taking ...

Beslan school survivor’s tale marks 10th anniversary of Russian terrorist attack. SHE was just 13. It was a normal, day - a new school year. But 10 years ago today her life and those of 1200 ...

On August 20, Vladimir Putin visited the town of Beslan, the site of the 2004 school siege that killed 333 people and saw more than 1,000 taken hostage. For the first time in two decades, Putin met ...

Overview of the Beslan Attack. The Beslan school siege, which began on September 1, 2004, in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, stands as one of the most tragic school attacks in history.

There was no connection whatsoever to the Beslan attack. When parliament gathered to vote on the move, opposition politicians picketed the building warning of a creeping dictatorship.

But the Dubrovka and Beslan attacks were conducted by insurgents from the North Caucasus who aimed to publicize Russia’s brutal handling of the war in Chechnya. Back then, ...