Soldiers line streets in Georgian state of emergency
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A ring of soldiers cordoned off central Tbilisi on Thursday after Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili declared a state of emergency and shut down independent media to quash six days of anti-government protests.
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Georgia's path to Nato is littered with roadblocks, says BBC's James Rodgers.
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Â· Record deployment of paratroopersÂ· Country may be sliding to civil war
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Iraq&#039;s government clamped a state of emergency on Baghdad and ordered everyone off the streets Friday after U.S. and Iraqi forces battled insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and rifles near the heavily fortified Green Zone.
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Government authorities declared martial law in a rural section of central China&#39;s Henan Province last week after four days of ethnic clashes there involving thousands of
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Hundreds of soldiers patrolled the streets of Kathmandu today after the government lifted a curfew imposed after deadly anti-Muslim riots erupted last week in Nepalâs capital.
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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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Hundreds of Afghan and coalition troops took up positions around the Afghan capital on Tuesday to prevent further anti-American riots a day after a deadly traffic accident set off the worst violence in the capital since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
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At least two Georgian soldiers were killed and five wounded in artillery fire with separatists in the breakaway region of South Ossetia, Georgian officials said on Wednesday.
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Another night of gunfire and artillery volleys killed a government soldier in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, officials said Tuesday.
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TBILISI, Georgia -- Hundreds of Georgians gathered yesterday in the snow in central Tbilisi to mourn Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, whose death has left the struggling former Soviet republic concerned about its future.
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Russia warned on Friday that its plans to close military bases in Georgia were in doubt and Georgia claimed Russia was moving troops near their shared border, as relations between the countries deteriorated in one of their worst crises since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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President Lansana Conte declared a state of emergency in Guinea on Monday, saying he had ordered the army to "take all necessary measures" to restore order after three days of violent protests. At least 27 people have been killed.
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Government forces battled separatists for strategic areas near South Ossetia&#39;s main city as Georgia sought the upper hand in some of the worst fighting in the breakaway region since a war more than a decade ago.
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Georgia's president claimed Thursday that his troops established control over a rebellious region after three days of clashes, but the defiant local leader targeted in the armed operation escaped.
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TBILISI  - Armed men abducted eight Georgian civilians in Georgia&#39;s breakaway region of South Ossetia, an area that last month saw fighting between Tbilisi and Ossetian forces, police said.
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Three Georgian soldiers have been killed and five wounded in clashes in Georgia's separatist region of South Ossetia, Rustavi 2 television reported, quoting an unnamed official with the Georgian interior ministry.