The first UNHCR humanitarian airlift flight carrying relief supplies for civilians affected by the South Ossetia conflict arrived in Georgia this morning as the estimated number of people uprooted by ...

May 31 (Reuters) - The Russian-backed rebel region of South Ossetia voted in a parliamentary election on Sunday that the opposition fear will cement the power of the province's leader, Eduard Kokoity.

The Russian-patrolled border that separates South Ossetia from Georgia snakes its way across sunny fields cut with trenches and through quiet woods spotted with landmines. The only visible signs of ...

Rusuldana Doguzova, 75, stands crying in the second floor entrance of her brick house. Above her, the sun shines through a latticework of broken boards that was once the roof and onto a dust-covered ...

Russia is open to negotiations for the withdrawal of troops from occupied Georgia, according to statements from a top Russian diplomat. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia was "ready to ...

TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's most powerful man, Bidzina Ivanishvili, suggested that the South Caucasus country could apologise to Ossetians for the 2008 war with Russia that led to Moscow recognising ...

The United States, the European Union, and other Western states have reiterated their support for Georgia's sovereign and territorial integrity as the country marks the 16th anniversary of a brief war ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia said it plans a Crimean-style referendum on joining Russia, drawing a furious riposte from Tbilisi over a move that risks inflaming ...

Media reports in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia said Sergo and Lyova Kabisov, two nephews of the region's former de facto leader, Anatoly Bibilov, were wounded in a shoot-out in the ...

"It is obvious that the current Georgian leadership is honest about the past," the Russian foreign minister noted UNITED NATIONS, September 28. /TASS/. Russia will be ready to provide support in ...

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) – A former KGB chief on Monday scored a victory in the runoff presidential election in Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia that has been roiled by a political crisis ...