“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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

In Beslan, a city in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia, militants seized a school and took 1,200 hostages in 2004. The standoff lasted 53 hours, during which hostages were tortured, terrorized and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...