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 ...

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.

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?

Reporting from Moscow — At 15, Israil Mirzakhanov was at a crossroads: He could stay home in the Caucasus region, where several of his friends already had been taken from their homes and had ...