S.Ossetian rebels force down Georgia helicopter
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A helicopter carrying Georgia's defense   minister and chief of staff was shot at by rebels from the   breakaway region of South Ossetia, forcing it to make an   emergency landing on Sunday, a military commander said.
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Georgian forces seized strategic heights from separatist fighters in rebel South Ossetia Thursday and President Mikhail Saakashvili promised more such victories to fulfill a pledge to reunite his fractious country.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- All Georgian troops have withdrawn from the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone following a week-long battle between the two sides, Georgian Defense Minister Giorgi Baramidze said on Friday.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- South Ossetia accused Georgian soldiers of attacking a village after several days of shelling in the border area, Interfax reported, citing the government of the breakaway region.
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Georgian military officials say at least six Georgian soldiers have been killed and at least seven others wounded in overnight clashes in Georgia&#39;s breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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A pro-Russian breakaway region in Georgia said on Saturday it believed a Georgian plane crashed over its territory this week and dismissed Georgia's accusation that a Russian aircraft had violated its airspace.
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TBILISI, Georgia President Mikhail Saakashvili said his forces seized strategic heights after fighting in the rebel South Ossetia region Thursday and promised more such victories to fulfill a pledge to reunite his country.
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Tension between Russia and Georgia has escalated dramatically following recent clashes between Georgia and two pro-Russia breakaway regions of Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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Georgian troops handed over strategic hilltops in the South Ossetian conflict zone to the joint peacekeeping forces, involving Georgian, Russian and Ossetian troops late on August 19.
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Tension persisted in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region, where the outgoing president Saturday accused the opposition candidate in last month's disputed presidential election of attempting a coup after his supporters occupied the government compound.
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Taliban fighters downed a NATO military helicopter which crashed in Afghanistan, the militant group said in a statement on the Internet on Thursday.
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One Georgian soldier was killed and three were wounded in overnight clashes in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, Georgian Interior Minister Irakli Okruashvili told Rustavi 2 television.
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Georgian forces fired at a plane 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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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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Russia raised the stakes in a spying row with Georgia on Saturday by suspending a scheduled pull-out of its troops from the former Soviet state.
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A plane of uncertain origin went down over Abkhazia, a senior official of the separatist region said Saturday, a day after Georgia reported that its forces fired on a plane believed to be Russian that had violated the country's airspace.
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Georgian forces fired on a Russian plane flying over Georgian territory earlier this week, a government official said Friday, claiming residents nearby reported an explosion and forest fire afterward.