With the support of the local community, the five Georgian mountaineers named the peak after their deceased friend, Piolet ...

Ali Akbar Velayati, senior Advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution for International Affairs, says Iran opposes US ...

Glaciers in the South Caucasus are melting faster than in almost any other mountain region on Earth, posing a threat to water security and increasing the risk of natural hazards, according to a new ...

Balkaria, a southern Russian republic known for towering peaks and alpine valleys. This footage captures rugged ridges, deep ...

How the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy elevates Azerbaijan as a pivotal partner in the South Caucasus for countering ...

These are not symbolic gestures for the cameras. They signal that both nations are finally capable of shifting from inherited ...

A genderless human figurine, carved 8,000 years ago, raises questions about how agriculture arrived in the South Caucasus.

If all the proposed energy-export projects envisioned for the South Caucasus were to be built, hundreds of billions of dollars of oil- and natural-gas revenues could be flowing through the region ...

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 ...

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 ...