A series of suicide bombings ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi has brought new attention to Russia’s unstable North Caucasus region. The violence highlights governance and counterterrorism ...

The population of the South Caucasus is around 17–18 million people combined. Azerbaijan has about 10 million. Georgia around ...

On the eve of new US moves in the South Caucasus, the visit of US Vice President JD Vance to the region has been accompanied by widespread speculation about Washington's real goals. This visit took ...

The Caucasus region of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia stands at a crossroads. After a deadly conflict erupted between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh last year, the region has been ...

Timed to coincide with the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, the United Nations Environmental Programme issued a report on major environmental challenges in the Caucasus, outlining the ...

Five months ago, the people of South Ossetia, a Georgian breakaway province, cast votes for their next president. Russia—the territory’s controlling nation—had endorsed a candidate, but the majority ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vice President JD Vance landed in Armenia on Monday as the first stop in his trip to the Caucasus region, where he will attempt to ...

As the global LGBT community marks Pride Month, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people face growing, state-sanctioned homophobia and violence in Russia, activists say. In its World Report 2023 ...

After U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently met with European Commission President Ursula on der Leyen and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the parties announced support for regional ...

Despite the reduction of large-scale military operations 10 years ago in Chechnya, a guerrilla war waged by Islamic fundamentalists rages on, and has brought a striking level of violence and bloody ...

An international research team, coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH) and the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin, is ...