The recent EU report on the 2008 Russia-Georgia War confirms that both Georgia and Russia acted irresponsibly before and during the war. But it misses an opportunity to outline how the long-running ...

Bidzina Ivanishvili writes in The Wall Street Journal Europe that his Georgian Dream coalition will drop Cold War rhetoric and do a better job of defusing the real causes of the explosive ...

For much of the past three decades, the South Caucasus has been internally fragmented, with former imperial hegemon Russia attempting to manipulate the region’s multiple conflicts to keep Armenia, ...

This episode traces the political motivations, military strategy, and devastating human cost of the conquest of the Caucasus. Kings and Generals Posted: April 23, 2025 | Last updated: April 23, 2025 ...

The drone war in the Caucasus could soon become a drone war in your backyard. UPDATE July 16th: Hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan have entered an active phase as fighting breaks out again.

The South Caucasus remains one of the most volatile portions of Eurasia. But this mountainous, culturally diverse crossroads region is changing—almost in spite of itself—making its underlying economic ...

Caucasus witnessing ‘state terror’ Head of Memorial human rights group says government losses have led to brutal crackdown. Published On 31 Mar 2010 31 Mar 2010 ...

They are the words of Dokku Umarov or, by his nom de guerre, Abu Usman, the amir of the mujahideen of Russia’s North Caucasus. The self-declared Caucasus Emirate (CE) was founded in October 2007 to ...

With much of the world’s attention distracted by wars in Israel and Ukraine, a third region of potentially escalating conflict risks being overlooked: the southern Caucasus.

Putin has used hard power to enforce Moscow’s sphere of influence. But the Ukraine war has caused him to lose out in regions he once sought to control.