Georgia Announces Troop Pullback in Rebel Region
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Georgia said on Friday its troops had  withdrawn after seizing strategic ground in a rebel territory,  in a move sure to be welcomed by Washington alarmed at a drift  toward war in an economically vital region.
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Rebel forces from Georgia's breakaway   region of South Ossetia shot at a Georgian military helicopter   and forced it to make an emergency landing on Sunday, a   Georgian military commander said.
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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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Russia began pulling out some of its   diplomats and their families from Georgia on Friday as the   small ex-Soviet state pressed spying charges against a group of   Russian army officers.
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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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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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Prague, 17 August 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Georgia&#39;s separatist republic of South Ossetia today said Tbilisi has agreed to withdraw all Interior Ministry troops sent into the region last June in violation of the 1992 peace agreement.
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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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Georgia announces that it will more than double the number of its troops fighting as part of the US-coalition in Iraq.
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Georgian government forces engaged separatists in battle for strategic areas near South Ossetia&#39;s main city yesterday in some of the worst fighting in the breakaway region since a war more than a decade ago.
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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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Overnight clashes killed six Georgian  servicemen in the rebel South Ossetia region, which Tbilisi is  trying to bring back under government control, Deputy Security  Minister Gigi Ugulava said on Thursday.
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The Republic of Georgia said Thursday it is raising the number of its soldiers serving with the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq to more than 2,000 from the current 850.
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TBILISI, Georgia The separatist conflicts in Georgia resulted from the &quot;foolish&quot; move by Georgia to strip South Ossetia and Abkhazia of their autonomous status during the Soviet collapse, President Vladimir Putin of Russia was quoted as saying on ...
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A senior U.S. commander in central Iraq said yesterday that a reduction of U.S. forces in his region this year would be "a giant step backwards," allowing insurgents to quickly return and jeopardizing the military's "tactical momentum" in reducing violence.
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At least four Georgian soldiers were killed and five wounded in overnight clashes in Georgia's separatist, pro-Russian region of South Ossetia, Georgian officers near the frontline with Ossetian forces said early Thursday.
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TBILISI : Shooting resumed in Georgia&#39;s pro-Russia separatist region of South Ossetia, as President Mikhail Saakashvili appealed for international peacekeepers to mediate the escalating conflict.