Georgia says it fired at Russian plane this week
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Georgian forces fired at a plane they believed was Russian after it violated the Caucasus republic's airspace on Wednesday, a senior interior ministry official said.
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A group of Islamic militants has claimed responsibility for Tuesdayâs air crashes in Russia. The statement, published on a website known for militant Muslim comment, linked the action to Russia&#39;s fight against separatists in Chechnya.
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A militant Islamic group has claimed responsibility for the twin air crashes in southern Russia earlier this week, which killed 89 people.
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Two Russian passenger planes that crashed almost simultaneously last week killing 90 people were blown up in a &quot;terrorist attack&quot; but not by hijackers, investigators said Monday.
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Georgian forces fired on a Russian plane flying over Georgian territory earlier this week after it allegedly violated the republic's air space, the government said yesterday. Authorities could not confirm whether the plane crashed but said residents of the remote area reported hearing an explosion and seeing trees burning after ...
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At least six Georgian soldiers were killed and seven wounded in overnight clashes in Georgia's separatist, pro-Russian region of South Ossetia, an official with the Georgian interior ministry told AFP.
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Georgian Defense Minister Georgi Baramidze said in Tbilsi that a Russian aircraft crossed into the Georgian region of Shatili on 19 September, near the border with Chechnya.
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The breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia says it has shot down a Georgian helicopter, reports say.
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Russia said Friday terrorists were behind a passenger jet crash, as an Islamic group vowing support for Chechen rebels claimed responsibility for that attack and the downing of another airliner on Tuesday.
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Georgia likens Russia's treatment of its citizens since the spying row to a "mild form of ethnic cleansing".
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Georgian forces fired at an airplane they believed was Russian after it violated the Caucasus republic's airspace on Wednesday, a senior interior ministry official said.
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THE Russian press has lashed out at President Vladimir Putin&#39;s government for failing to &quot;call a spade a spade&quot; and admit that this week&#39;s simultaneous crashes of two passenger jets were the work of terrorists.
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TBILISI -- The commander of Russian military forces in Georgia said yesterday his troops had been put on high alert and ordered to use lethal force to defend their bases, amid mounting tensions over the arrest of four Russian military officers accused of spying. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, denounced the Georgian authorities' arrests as ``state terrorism" and blamed unidentified ...
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A Georgian military helicopter was shot   down over the breakaway South Ossetia province on Sunday,   Russian news agencies quoted rebel and Georgian government   officials as saying.
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Russian officials declared Friday that a terrorist act downed one of the two planes in this week&#39;s near simultaneous crashes after the wreckage revealed traces of a high explosive
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Georgian forces fired at an airplane  they believed was Russian after it violated the Caucasus  republic&#39;s airspace on Wednesday, a senior interior ministry  official said.
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An Islamist group has claimed that it  hijacked two Russian planes that crashed this week, killing at  least 89 people, and threatened more attacks, according to an  Internet statement posted on Friday.