The recent protests in Iran, with a still unconfirmed number of casualties, have sparked widespread speculation about the long-term viability of the Islamic Republic. While much international analysis ...

Trump's second term may lead to a less predictable US foreign policy in the Caucasus region. The potential appointment of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State raises concerns for Azerbaijan due to his ...

Heart-wrenching scenes recently greeted Russian peacekeepers at their base in Nagorno-Karabakh as tens of thousands of ethnic Armenian civilians sought safety. This tragedy was the conclusion to ...

Russia’s influence in the South Caucasus has decreased in recent years. Well beyond Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ...

Russia and Azerbaijan have agreed to strengthen their cooperation during a meeting in Baku on Monday between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Ilham Aliyev. Following the talks, Putin said the leaders ...

After U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently met with European Commission President Ursula on der Leyen and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the parties announced support for regional ...

Over the years, Russia's southern republic of Dagestan, located in the North Caucasus region, has been beset by extremist violence. This weekend, there was more bloodshed. Officials say five gunmen in ...

Timed to coincide with the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, the United Nations Environmental Programme issued a report on major environmental challenges in the Caucasus, outlining the ...

The Zangezur Corridor, a small strip of land in Armenia, is a key geopolitical flashpoint in the Caucasus region, attracting the attention of major regional and global powers. Iran views the Zangezur ...

A sudden outburst of sometimes violent anti-Semitic protests in Russia's primarily Muslim North Caucasus region has exposed the domestic perils posed by authoritarian President Vladimir Putin's ...

Residents of a tiny Russian republic in the North Caucasus are persistently minting cryptocurrencies in defiance of stringent restrictions on the activity, local media revealed. Illegal mining has ...

The deaths of two women in the Caucasus region under suspicious circumstances have brought renewed attention to the persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya. While being pursued outside Chechnya, which ...