A deadly suicide attack on the funeral of a police officer killed the previous day in a firefight with militants may signal a new advance of the Chechen insurgency into the Ingush Republic.
Some 60,000 Azeris gathered in Baku to mark the 20th anniversary of the Khojaly massacre in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenian forces that control the enclave have opened it to copper, lead and barite exploration.
At least two are reported dead in the Georgian capital Tbilisi as riot police used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon to disperse hundreds of demonstrators demanding resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili.
Russian authorities say the deadly Moscow airport blast was masterminded from Dagestan—as terror continues within Dagestan itself, winning few international headlines.
Was the WikiLeaks cable on the lavish wedding of a Caucasus warlord a strategy by crypto-fascist Israel Shamir to undercut US efforts to isolate the Belarussian dictator?
Turkey allowed Armenians to hold mass Sept. 19 at the Church of the Holy Cross—an iconic 10th century landmark on Akdamar Island in Lake Van, southeast Anatolia—for the first time since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end… Read moreArmenians protest Turkish “show” of reconciliation
The aftermath of a deadly bomb blast in the Georgian separatist enclave of South Ossetia has seen a wave of protests against ethnic Ingush, who are being blamed in the attack.
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu jointly denounced the Swedish Parliament’s resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide.
Turkey has recalled its US ambassador in response to a House Foreign Affairs Committee vote on a resolution recognizing the 1915-23 Armenian genocide.
Police in Russia’s south killed two suspected militants in a “counter-terrorism operation” launched in response to a checkpoint suicide attack that took the lives of six officers.
Protesters rallied in Armenia’s capital to oppose a new accord re-establishing ties with Turkey, that they fear will lead to a whitewash of the Armenian genocide.
Russian human rights group Memorial has suspended operations in Chechnya following the murder of one of its most prominent activists, Natalya Estemirova.
