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Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov, who claimed the Moscow Metro bombings earlier this year which killed 40 people, is said to be resigning.
In a video released online a man appearing to be Mr Umarov, 46, says he is handing over to a younger comrade.
The speaker says a man seated next to him, named as Aslambek Vadalov, can lead “more energetically”.
Doku Umarov is one of the few rebel leaders to survive from Chechnya’s spell of independence from Russia.
At least four paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed and 15 injured, four of them critically, in a powerful landmine explosion Friday in Holmari in Assam’s Goalpara district.
Militants, suspected to be from the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), triggered a landmine blast around 8 a.m. when around 20 CRPF troopers were returning in a bus from an anti-insurgency training camp.
Two italian soldiers have killed in Afghanistan, at eight kilometers at south of Herat, caused by an explosion of a rudimentary bomb. Also slightly wounded a girl soldier, captain Federica Luciani.
Victims are prime sergeant Mauro Gigli and corporal chief Pierdavide De Cillis. They belonged at XXXII Reggimento Genio.
In explosion have killed also two soldiers of Ana, Afghan National Army - afghan army - and others two have been seriously wounded.
A dozen of talibans, included their commander, have been surrendered in Herat afghan province under italian military jurisdiction.
Pajhwok afghan press agency referred it.
Commander Rahimullah and his men operated against afghan and international forces in Shindand district.
North Korea today threatened a “physical response” to planned military exercises by the US and South Korea this weekend, as tensions on the Korean peninsula dominated a regional security forum in Hanoi.
The regime did not specify what that response might be, but said it interpreted the launch on Sunday of four days of naval and air drills in the Sea of Japan as another sign of US “hostility”.
“It is a threat to the Korean peninsula and the region of Asia as a whole,” a North Korea spokesman, Ri Tong-il, told reporters at the Asean regional forum.