It&#39;s Time to Worry About the North Caucasus
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The shock of the horror of Beslan will linger for a long time, but the local repercussions are only just beginning. It is time to start paying serious attention to the North Caucasus.
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âPakistan is inherently unstable. Dealing with them is like playing with matches in a forest.â - Larry Pressler. That statement from Larry Pressler, made during his recent visit to India, coincided with
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The current political events in Ukraine highlight not only the ineptitude of previous geopolitical decisions in the region, going back to World War I, and indeed even prior to that, but also the importance of ...
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WASHINGTON, Aug 17  - The United States is eyeing tensions between Georgia and separatists in Abkhazia and South Ossetia while hoping US influence with Georgia&#39;s new president can halt broader armed conflict in the Caucasus.
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Georgia fears it will be the target of Russian counter-terrorism strikes after the Beslan tragedy.
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The disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is a hot topic in Armenia's presidential polls, Matthew Collin reports.
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Those who want proof the United States&#39; efforts in Iraq have plunged the world into danger need only look at the usual suspects: Iran, Israel, Syria.
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STANFORD, California During the last year, the world has been watching Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgia&#39;s dynamic young president, try to reunite his country and his people. In November he staged a bloodless coup, dubbed the &quot;Rose Revolution,&quot; overthrowing ...
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A wave of terror has hit Russia. We have grown used to referring to what has been happening in Chechnya as the âcounter-terrorist operationâ.
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Russia may intervene in the Georgian region of Abkhazia if a crisis over the disputed election is not resolved.
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Booming Azerbaijan is the key to the West's energy freedom. It's a precarious place for such a crucial job
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To anyone who remembers the way that past sieges ended in the Caucasus, the chaotic scenes in Beslan were horribly familiar. The storming of the school was not planned.
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For years, Chechnya's war and misery has been a wound in Russia's side that festered through mistreatment and neglect. After last week's school hostage tragedy, which followed twin airline explosions and a suicide bombing in Moscow just days before, the region's ills threaten to engulf the entire nation.
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As we argued last week, one of America&#39;s most urgent foreign policy needs is to retool international organizations and traditional alliances to provide collective security against the global threat of jihadist terrorism.
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BAGHDAD - Senior Iraqi officials expressed concern yesterday that the escalating crisis in northern Iraq between Turkey and Kurdish guerrillas could undermine an important regional conference this week on the future of Iraq.
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Chechen journalist Timur Aliyev exposes the black economy that plagues breakaway Chechnya.
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Could 2008 be the year when the threat of conflict evaporates from the historically troubled Balkans, writes the BBC's Nick Thorpe.