Army fights rebels in effort to unite Georgia
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TSKHINVALI, Georgia -- 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 ...
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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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Fighting in Georgia's separatist pro-Russia region of South Ossetia killed another three Georgian servicemen and wounded five in the escalating conflict warily watched by Moscow and the West.
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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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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.
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Georgia offers a partial troop withdrawal from South Ossetia after heavy fighting with separatist rebels.
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Georgian forces seized strategic  heights from separatist fighters in rebel South Ossetia on  Thursday and President Mikhail Saakashvili promised more such  victories to fulfil a pledge to reunite his fractious country.
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UN forces hold off a rebel advance in the wake of a failed offensive by government forces.
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Separatists threatened Friday to use force to stop Georgia's government from strengthening its control over a gorge on the edge of a breakaway territory.
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Leaders of the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia said Monday they would hold a referendum on independence in November &#151; a move likely to infuriate the government in Tbilisi and stoke already spiraling tensions.
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Georgian opposition leaders vowed on Wednesday to continue a wave of anti-government protests across the Caucasus nation to challenge President Mikhail Saakashvili.
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Georgia is to set up checkpoints in a key gorge in the rebel Abkhazia region, following clashes.
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18 August 2004 -- Georgia says three of its soldiers were killed in the latest fighting with forces from the country&#39;s South Ossetia separatist region.
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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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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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An escalating confrontation between Georgia and Russia and the Russian sanctions that accompany it are threatening GeorgiaÂs economy.
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TBILISI, Georgia  - 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.