The victims, of course, are the civilians of Georgia and its breakaway South Ossetia region, caught in the escalating battle between the Georgian military and South Ossetian separatists and their more ...

In recent days, there has been a remarkable change in Western opinion about the August war between Georgia and Russia over my homeland of South Ossetia. The New York Times, the BBC and Human Rights ...

Aug 10 (Reuters) - Georgian forces pulled out of the breakaway South Ossetia region on Sunday after three days of fighting and Russian troops took most of the capital. Here is a chronology of events ...

Georgia is seeking support from the United States and other Western powers in reclaiming the breakaway region of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, whose Russia-backed governments vow to remain independent ...

Alan Gagloyev, the newly elected president of Georgia’s secessionist South Ossetia region, indicated on Monday that the country had temporarily abandoned its plans to hold a referendum on whether or ...

Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia (file photo) Tensions between Georgia and its separatist republic of South Ossetia have heightened in recent days, with a series of kidnappings and detentions ...

Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region is experiencing the worst outbreak of hostilities since it won de facto independence in a war that ended in 1992. Yonatan Pomrenze, NBC News' Moscow producer, ...

Although Russian troops have announced that they will partially withdraw from Georgian territory, they have left behind army checkpoints on Georgian territory. One South Ossetian town is on the ethnic ...

Leaders of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia say they're planning a referendum on joining the Russian Federation, according to Russian state news agency TASS. Georgians have been anxiously ...

The High Commissioner completed his four-day mission to Georgia, South Ossetia and the Russian Federation on Friday and we are seeing an increasing number of refugees and displaced people returning to ...

Aug 8 (Reuters) - Russian armoured vehicles have entered the northern edges of Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia, the separatists' press service reported on its ...