Environmental and Energy problems in the South Caucasus are providing opportunities for larger neighbors, such as Iran and ...

The recent protests in Iran, with a still unconfirmed number of casualties, have sparked widespread speculation about the ...

Cooperation Expands In Caucasus As Conflict Gives Way To Dialogue. Qabil Ashirov Read more The war that began between ...

As Donald Trump assumes once more the presidency in the United States, most of the foreign policy discussion revolves around Ukraine, the Middle East, China and other big stories. Indeed, even before ...

Rescue teams and humanitarian aid from around the Caucasus have been sent to Turkey and Syria to aid recovery efforts following a massive earthquake this week, the death toll of which has already ...

The South Caucasus region has a strategic geographic position because Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia share borders with three major powers: Russia, Iran, and Turkey. Yet, the long-lasting conflict ...

An emboldened Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey, has changed the balance of power in the South Caucasus in recent years. Baku reclaimed full control over Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway region that for three ...

In late June, as part of a police raid in Yekaterinburg, Russian security forces arrested a dozen ethnic Azerbaijanis, two of whom died in custody, with a subsequent autopsy reportedly showing signs ...

While visiting Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge towards the end of the second Chechen War (1999-2009), what struck me most was the large number of Christian graves that resembled Muslim tombstones. I was also ...

In a region where almost daily shootings and bombings have taken place for years, an attack in Ingushetia earlier this week caught the authorities by surprise. A suicide bomber rammed a van packed ...

The first freely elected president of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia was barricaded in his parliament building behind thick cordons of National Guardsmen and police. He dared not go out. A few ...