The Caucasus region, which straddles the Europe/Asia border, ... Most frequently I was simply sitting with people over a table, drinking, sharing food and the stories of our lives.

Ethnic Armenian soldiers during the war for Nagorno-Karabakh (file photo) (Photolur) Well over a decade after conflicts in the South Caucasus froze, the International Committee of the Red Cross ...

For most Russian citizens, meanwhile, the North Caucasus is peopled not by neighbors or citizens but by stereotypes. A mountain region, alien and dangerous, it is populated (in the Russian popular ...

How did a predominantly rural, mountainous region of fewer than 10 million people degenerate so swiftly into chaos, misery, endless bloodshed, and religious and social polarization?

Russia's Caucasus Region Ripe For Trouble A Chechen militant group has claimed responsibility for Monday's double bombing on the Moscow subway that killed dozens. There were also attacks in Dagestan.