Clashes persist in South Ossetia
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Heavy fighting is reported in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region after the deaths of two soldiers.
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Officials in Georgia say at least two soldiers have been killed and five wounded in the latest battles with separatist fighters in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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The sharp deterioration of the situations in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transdniestria are the direct outcome of the attempts by Tbilisi and Chisinau to resolve the conflicts by the use of force, says a joint ...
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said a Russian military officer was among two people killed when Georgian security forces clashed with Moscow-backed separatists in the breakaway province of Abkhazia
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Georgia held talks with its breakaway region of South Ossetia hosted by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Wednesday, but failed to find any solution to their long-standing conflict.
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At least six rebels and four security officers die in clashes in the southern Russian region of Dagestan over the weekend.
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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels were engaged in sporadic clashes in the north of the island Monday, the day after fierce battles left scores dead, official sources said.
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TBILISI : Shooting resumed in Georgia&#39;s pro-Russia separatist region of South Ossetia, as President Mikhail Saakashvili appealed for international peacekeepers to mediate the escalating conflict.
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Georgian officials reported four Georgian soldiers were killed in a heavy fighting, which erupted in the South Ossetian conflict zone late on August 18.
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Papers in Russia and across Europe continue to debate the reasons for the bloody outcome of the school siege in North Ossetia, and the lessons to be learned.
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MOSCOW, Sept. 4 -- Tension between Russia and Georgia, never far from the surface, flared anew Monday after a helicopter carrying the Georgian defense minister was shot at by separatists in a breakaway enclave supported by Russia.
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TBILISI, Georgia  - A gun battle between rival  forces meant to be keeping the peace in Georgia's separatist  province of South Ossetia killed two Georgian soldiers Monday  and dashed a short-lived cease-fire.
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Description: Tensions between Russia and Chechnya escalated with the rebel seizure of a school in Beslan earlier this month. Chechen separatists claim the violence stems from decades of abuse by Russian authorities seeking to take control of the region.
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Three Georgian peacekeepers were killed in overnight shooting in South Ossetia, officials said Wednesday, while Russia scoffed at Georgia's appeal for foreign mediation in the breakaway region where daily exchanges of gunfire have stoked fears of war.
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Georgian troops continue an operation against a rebel group in the breakaway Abkhazia region, as tension grows in the region.
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Georgia and Russia clashed at the United Nations on Wednesday over an incident in which Georgian security forces killed two Russian officers training insurgents in the breakaway region of Abkhazia.
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Georgian forces and South Ossetian separatists exchanged intense gun and mortar fire in the breakaway region, and officials said Wednesday that at least eight people were injured.