Georgia clashes with rebel forces
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Four people are reported to have been killed in clashes in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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Renewed clashes in South Ossetia, which resulted in death of two Georgian soldiers, erupted late on August 17, several hours after the South Ossetian and Georgian officials agreed on ceasefire. As a result Tbilisi has already announced that it will not ...
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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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Around 90 people died in a series of weekend clashes between troops and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, including more than 70 rebels killed in a battle in the south and four US soldiers.
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Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels clashed in southeastern Turkey in fighting that killed two soldiers and a guerrilla, news reports said Sunday.
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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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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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Army reinforcements sent to bolster the Democratic Republic of Congo's fragile border region with Rwanda have clashed with former rebel units within the army, a local military commander said on Sunday.
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Rebel fighters clashed with government troops, and warplanes struck rebel positions in the north yesterday, escalating hostilities a day after army hard-liners broke a cease-fire and relaunched Ivory Coast's civil war after more than a year of relative peace.
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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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Rebel fighters attacked U.S. troops and fired rockets at American helicopters in a skirmish in southern Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday.
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Armed men abducted eight Georgian civilians in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, an area that last month saw fighting between Tbilisi and Ossetian forces, police said.
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New tensions emerge on Georgia's border with Azerbaijan over claims of smuggling and a rail dispute.
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Explosions and gunfire echoed over this regional capital Thursday as government troops battled South Ossetian separatists over key hills outside town, after a week of near nightly clashes that escalated into some of the worst fighting in a decade.
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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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Georgia offers a partial troop withdrawal from South Ossetia after heavy fighting with separatist rebels.
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Fighting has broken out in a region of Democratic Republic of Congo near Rwanda between rival factions within Congo&#39;s supposedly unified national army.